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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date28 October 1880
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: George Busk; 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; Alfred Newton; William Odling; Sir James Paget; William Henry Perkin; Charles William Siemens; John Simon; 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. Deaths of Edward Lord Belper, William Lassell and James Robert Napier. Treasurer reported on the receipt of £1,000 of the Government Grant. Professor C. Fridel nominated for the Davy Medal: adjudication of medals discussed and adjourned. List of Members of Council due to retire in the coming year. Report of the Meteorlogical Council forwarded to Government. Treasurer reported on the death of Mr. W. Pugh, the Society's tenant at Acton: contract for the sale of all remaining land at Acton to Mr. Robert Thompson sealed, the date of completion of sale 25 March 1881. Treasurer authorised to invest the balence of the Fee Reduction Fund. A deputation of Officers to visit the Home Secretary in relation to the letter of reply to last Council's letter, received from the Home Office. Letter from William Law, Treasury Chambers, 22 October 1880, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: enclosing a letter received from the Admiralty on the approaching Transit of Venus and requesting an opinion. Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 18 September 1880, to the Secretray of the Admiralty, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements for the the 1882 Transit of Venus, Airy's worload from the 1874 transit was onerous and he has letters coming in from potential observers of the next event;; he proposes that E.J. Stone of the Radcliffe Observatory takes charge of the management of this; resolved that a committee be appointed to consider a reply to the Treasury. Concil sanctioned the loan of the Broun Gravimeter to the India Office. Letter from D.C. Richmond, Charity Commission, Whitehall, 4 August 1880, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting that the Royal Society nominate an almoner for Christ's Hospital School: consideration deferred until the draft scheme is approved by H.M. the Queen. The President noted accompanying a deputation to the Prime Minister to object to aspects of the Vaccination Bill. Withdrawal of the Bishop of Ripon from the Royal Society. Leave granted to Mr. F. Pollock to view letters of Spinoza in the archives and to Dr. Angus Smith to copy letters of Denis Papin on behalf of Dr. Gerland. List of bills for payment, for printing, lithography and for other expenses.
Extent4p; pp.174-177
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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