| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Major-General John Theophilus Boileau; Warren De La Rue; Willam Henry Flower; Edward Frankland; Francis Galton; William Augustus Guy: John Russell Hind; Thomas Henry Huxley; Reverend Robert Main; William Pole; Reverend Bartholomew Price; Admiral George Henry Richards; Henry Clifton Sorby; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the President, Joseph Dalton Hooker, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. New members of Council made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Appointment of Vice-Presidents. Deaths of David Forbes and Karl Ernst von Baer. Report of the Circumnavigation Committee, with drafts of letters to the Treasury, on the disposal of specimens from the Challenger Expedition, mainly to the British Museum. Additional letters concerning the Challenger Expedition specimens, full text entered into the minutes: R.R.W. Lingen, Treasury Chambers, 22 November 1876, to the President of the Royal Society; Charles Wyville Thomson, 20 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 2 October 1876, to the Secretary of the Treasury; Charles Wyville Thomson, 20 Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, 30 October 1876, to the Secretary of the Treasury. Report of a meeting of the Government Grant Committee, with instructions on the administration of the Government Fund of £4,000. 300 additional copies of Dr. Andrews' Bakerian Lecture to be granted to him on payment of printing and paper costs. Reappointment of committees, with some terms of reference: the Library Committee; the Soiree and House Committee; the Acton Estate Committee; the Davy Medal Committee; the Committee to receive and consider reports from naturalists attached to Transit of Venus expeditions to Kerguelen's Land and Rodriguez; the Eclipse Committee; with a committee created to consider the arrangements for illustrating experimental papers and the conservation of instruments. The Treasurer read a letter from the solicitors, stating that R.C. Carrington's legacy of £2,000 consols was to be paid, the legacy to be transferred to the Society's stock account at the Bank of England. Bills for payment for lithography. |