| 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; William Augustus Guy; John Russell Hind; Thomas Henry Huxley; 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. Dr. Masters appointed to represent the Royal Society at the International Horticultural Congress in Amsterdam. Selection of candidates for Fellowship considered and adjourned. Letter from R.R.W. Lingen, Treasury Chambers, 16 March 1877, to the President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: sending a copy of the reply received from the Admiralty on the Parliamentary Grant for Meteorology and the possible use of the Hydrography Department; recommending that the Hydrographer of the Admiralty be added as an ex-officio member of the Meteorological Committee. Letter from Robert Hall, Admiralty, 6 March 1877, to the Secretary of the Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: responding to the Report of the Treasury Committee on the meteorology grant, stating that it would be highly desirable for ocean meteorology to be undertaken by the Hydrographical Department of the Admiralty, but pointing out the difficulties that this would present. Letter from R.R.W. Lingen, Treasury Chambers, 23 March 1877, to the President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: transmitting a copy of a memorial from the Scottish Meteorological Society and asking the opinion of Council of the Royal Society. Memorandum, Richmond and Gordon, Scottish Meteorological Society, General Post Office Building, Edinburgh, 19 March 1877, to the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: requesting that representation on the Committee on Meteorology be extended to included Scottish and Irish appointees. Draft letter from the President and Council of the Royal Society, to the Treasury, full text entered into the minutes: on the organisation of meteorological work to be administered by a Meteorological Council. Letter from the Meteorological Committee, Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, 31 March 1877, to President and Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: the resignations of members of the Meteorological Committee in the light of proposed new arrangements occasioned by the Treasury Committee Report; thanks of the Royal Society offered and they are requested to continue until the new arrangements are in place. The letter of Council to be communicated to the Treasury, and the Treasury to be informed of the embarrassing position of the present Committee, who should be relieved of their functions within two months. £100 from the Scientific Relief Fund placed in the hands of Dr. Hooker, for the benefit of an applicant. Bill for payment for lithography and engraving. |