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CMP - Council Minutes, Printed
- 4 - Minutes of meetings of Council of the Royal Society, volume 4

RefNo	CMP/4/84
Level	Item
Title	Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date	11 January 1877
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; Peter Martin Duncan; Willam Henry Flower; Edward Frankland; Francis Galton; William Augustus Guy: John Russell Hind; Thomas Henry Huxley; Reverend Robert Main; Reverend Bartholomew Price; Admiral George Henry Richards; Henry John Stephen Smith; Henry Clifton Sorby; William Spottiswoode; Balfour Stewart; 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. Death of Thomas Snow Beck. Report of the Government Fund Sub-Committee D, full text entered into the minutes: procedures for the administration of the Government Fund; agreed procedures to be printed and sent to every member of the Government Fund Committee. The Treasurer reported that the Parliamentary standards had been returned by the Warden, but that the mahogany supports had been removed and tissue paper substituted: the Senior Secretary to ask the Astronomer Royal whether this change should be adopted. Letter from R.R.W. Lingen, Treasury Chambers, 23 December 1876, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: giving thanks for the valuable advice provided by Professor Huxley's letter and stating that the Treasury is prepared to follow this advice regarding the disposal of the Challenger specimens; Wyville Thomson is instructed to dispose of the collections in the way described and £4,000 will be set aside in estimates, for the working out of the collections; Wyville Thomson will report to the Royal Society on progress until the work is completed. Letter from the Committee of Council on Education, asking if the Society's instruments, lent to the loan collection, should be returned or whether they might be retained pending a decision on a permanent Museum of Scientific Apparatus: the return of the instruments to be requested. Letter from the Reverend Dr. Robinson suggesting additional experiments with the anemometer, with an estimate of expenses: £50 allocated from the Donation Fund. Letter from Mr. Mallet requesting copies of referees' reports on his paper on the structure of basalt: Mallet to be informed that the reports were confidential. Application of Mr. C.V. Walker for a copy of the Society's charters and bye-laws, for the library of the Society of Telegraph Engineers, granted. A donation of two guineas to be made to the parochial schools at Mablethorpe. List of bills for payment, for construction of a strongroom, lithography and law expenses.
Extent	4p; pp.374-377
Format	Printed
PhysicalDescription	On paper
AccessStatus	Open

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