| 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: Sir Risdon Bennett; Thomas George Bonney; Heinrich Debus; Alexander John Ellis; John Evans (Treasurer); Michael Foster; Thomas Archer Hirst; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; Joseph Lister; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; Henry Tibbats Stainton; George Gabriel Stokes; Edward James Stone; 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 George Gulliver and the Earl of Harrowby. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. The purchase of £250 of consols for the Fee Reduction Fund authorised. The Treasurer reported that the proceeds of the Handley Fund had been placed to the credit of the Donation Fund. Report of the Kew Committee presented and ordered to be printed in the Proceedings. Professor Bonney appointed to the Scientific Relief Committee. The seal of the Royal Society affixed to the licence on conditions for the Society's occupation of the Kew Observatory. Letter from Robert H. Scott, Meteorological Office, 116 Victoria Street, London, 9 November 1882, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements for the publication of the tables for the Registrar-General of Scotland, the letter ordered to be transmitted to the Treasury. Report of the meeting of the Estates Committee was read: documents relating to the Society's purchase of the Fee-Farm Rent at Lewes in 1674 placed in the hands of Few and Company, with instructions to communicate with Mr. Delves. Leave granted to Messrs. Lawes and Gilbert, and to Messrs. Waller and De Watteville, to have extra copies of their Philosophical Transactions paper. Leave granted to Messrs. Clay and Company to use blocks for a reprint of Sir William Thomson's published works. |