| 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 Charles Woodward. The Foreign Secretary presented a diploma of the 50th anniversary of the Academy of Catania. List of candidates for Fellowship selected to be recommended to the Society at the annual meeting for the purpose. Letter from Norman MacLeod, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, 20 March 1877, to the Secretaries, Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: informing the Society that recommendations respecting the £4,000 grant had been approved and the means of payment will form the subject of another communication. Letter from Norman MacLeod, Science and Art Department, South Kensington, 28 March 1877, to the Secretaries, Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: on personal and non-personal payments from the reserach grant, with timings and a request for name and address details. Letter from Mr. Winter Jones, giving thanks on behalf of the Royal Dublin Society, for zoological specimens from Kerguelen and Rodriguez. Letter from Robert H. Scott, Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, 31 March 1877, to the Secretary, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting the loan of the Society's standard barometer, for comparison with the Kew and Greenwich standard barometers; resolved that the instrument should be loaned for one year. Read a letter from the organising committee to honour Professor P.J. van Beneden: in reply, a letter from A.W. Williamson, the Royal Society, 19 April 1877, to Mr. Warlomont, President of the Committee, full text entered into the minutes; expressing sympathy with the committee's objective. £10 from the Donation Fund granted to Mr. W.R. Birt, for a portable telescope stand for the instrument belonging to the Society in his possesssion. The contributors to the Reports on the Natural History of Kerguelen and Rodriguez to be granted one copy of the whole work and 25 separate copies gratis, with permission for 75 more on payment. Applications from individuals and companies for the loan of copper plates and electrotypes. Bill for payment for engraving. |