| 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: Arthur Cayley; Major-General Henry Clerk; Edwin Dunkin; John Evans (Treasurer); Augustus George Vernon Harcourt; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; John Whitaker Hulke; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir Henry Lefroy; Alfred Newton; William Odling; William Henry Perkin; Charles William Siemens; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; 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 Sir John Macneill. Letter from Norman MacLeod, Science and Art Department, London, 28 February 1880, to George Gabriel Stokes, Secretary, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: approving the recommendations respecting the £4,000 Parliamentary grant for scientific research. Letter from the Colonial Office forwarding reports from the Governor of the Leeward Islands on a volcanic eruption on the island of Dominica on 4 January. The paper on animal mechanics by Professor Haughton selected as the Croonian Lecture. £30 from the Donation Fund granted to Professor W.C. Williamson to aid in investigations into fossil plants of the coal measures. Letter from Anton Dohrn of the Zoological Station at Naples, £100 from the Donaton Fund granted in aid of the objects mentioned. Library Comittee recommendations on exchanges of Proceedings. Various publications granted to the Academy of Sciences at Brussels. Report of the Estates Committee adopted and payment ordered for works on the construction of Newton Avenue in Acton. |