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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date30 November 1877
DescriptionPrinted 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; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Francis Galton; William Augustus Guy; John Russell Hind; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Pole; Sir George Henry Richards; 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. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Dr.Duncan appointed to the Scientific Relief Committee in place of Dr. Allman. Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton elected a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. Nomination of Foreign Members: Mercellin Bertholet, Joseph Decaisne Emil Du Bois-Reymond, Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, Rudolph Leuckart, Simon Newcomb and Pafnutij Tschebytschew elected and their certificates signed by Council. Letter from Thomas Henry Huxley, the Royal Society, Burlington House, to the Secretary, Science and Art Department, full text entered into the minutes: in response to the memoranda from the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy on the Government Fund Committee, correcting assertions that no grants had been awarded to researchers in Ireland and only £1,000 to Scottish researchers; with a list of grants to residents of Ireland amounting to £2,053 17s. 3d.; and to residents of Scotland totalling £1,734 10s. Letter from Norman Macleod, Science and Art Department, London, 23 July 1877, to the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: the Committee of Council on Education have agreed that Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy would be represented on the Government Grant Committee. Leave granted to Mr. E. Hull to copy his paper in the archives. Report of the Kew Committe presented and ordered to be printed in Proceedings.
Extent6p; pp.445-450
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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