| 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: William Bowman; Major-General Henry Clerk; William Crookes; John Evans (Treasurer); Augustus George Vernon Harcourt; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir Henry Lefroy; Charles William Siemens; John Simon; George Gabriel Stokes; Allen Thomson; Alexander William Williamson; the President, William Spottiswoode, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of John Allan Broun. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Report of the Kew Committee presented and ordered to be printed in the Proceedings. Mr. Siemens appointed to the Scientific Relief Committee, in place of Warren De la Rue. Professor Stokes read the covering letter sent to the Under Secretary of State for India, enclosing the letter to the Rajah of Travancore. Professor Huxley appointed as a delegate to a committee to consider whether a meeting of the International Congress of Medical Science should be held in Great Britain in 1881. |