| 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; Peter Martin Duncan; Willam Henry Flower; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Francis Galton; William Augustus Guy; John Russell Hind; Thomas Henry Huxley; Reverend Robert Main; William Pole; Reverend Benjamin Price; Admiral George Henry Richards; Henry John Stephen Smith; Henry Clfton 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 Major-General Eardley-Wilmot, Robert Were Fox, John Peter Gassiot, John Heywood Hawkins, Major-General Sir Henry James, Dr, Henry Minchin Noad, William Henry Fox Talbot, Samuel Warren, Georg Adolph Erman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier. There were now seven vacancies for Foreign Members. The Foreign Secretary presented the printed manifestation in hour of P.J. van Beneden with a medal in bronze. The Treasurer reported the receipt of £1,000 of Government Grant. Adjudication of Royal Society medals discussed and adjourned. Nomination of Fellows for election to the new Council discussed and a list of retiring members of Council, to be discuseed at the next meeting. Letter of R.R.W. Lingen, Treasury Chambers, 28 June 1877, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: there would be no objection to the Societys recommendation on the composition of the new Meteorological Council and that the new Council would be exclusively responsible for its annual report, with Council of the Royal Society confined to observations on the report; a supplementary vote of £2,000 for the current year was approved, along with nominations to the Council and transfer of any accounts should be recorded. Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, the Royal Society, Burlington House, 9 July 1877, to R.H. Scott, Meteorological Office, full text entered into the minutes: relaying the outcomes of correspondence between the Royal Society and the Treasury on the new Meteorological Council. Letter from Robert H. Scott, Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, London, 17 July 1877, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: forwarding excerpted minutes from the Meteorological Council relating to the handover of responsibilities to the new Council. Letter from the Admiralty concerning dplicate natural history specimens collected by Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys in the Valorous, the Society to suggest that the specimens be deposited with thee British Museum. Letter from Few and Company, 19 Surrey Street, Strand, London, 25 October 1877, to Walter White, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on placing out on mortgage Royal Society funds, the borrower Walter Hume Long of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, who desires a loan of £15,000 at 4 percent, the security being two freehold farms in Chitterne All Saints; Few and Company consider this to be absolutely safe and the Treasurer was authorized to take steps to effect the mortgage if he was satisfied. Letter from John Evans, Nsh Mills, Hemel Hempsted, 22 August 1877, to Walter White, full text entered into the minutes: sending a case containing the portrait of Sir John Herschel by Professor Jensen as a donation to the Royal Society; the picture accepted with thanks to Mr. Evans. Mr. Lockyer's report on the eclipse fo the Sun obseved at Siam was referred to the Committee of Papers. Leave granted to Mr. W.C. Roberts to have electrotypes from his paper on the liquation of alloys. List of bills for payment, for printing and other expenses. |