| 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: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney; William Grylls Adams; John Gilbert Baker; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Warren de La Rue; Sir Frederick Evans; John Evans (Treasurer); George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Francis Galton; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Sir William Gull; Hugo Muller; Joseph Prestwich; Osborne Reynolds; Osbert Salvin; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the President, Thomas Henry Huxley, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of Dr. John Hutton and Isaac Todhunter. Dates and times for meeting of the Government Grant Committee and Sub-Committees. Letter from Leonard Courtney, Treasury Chambers, 13 February 1884, to the Secretary, the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: the Treasury had sanctioned the expense of sending two delegates to the International Conference at Washington for fixing a common prime meridian. Letter from the Treasury stating that the Report of the Meteorological Council had been presented to both Houses of Parliament. Letters from the Science and Art Department relating to an ornithological congress in Vienna. Letter announcing the third annual meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, to be held in Ottawa, and inviting a delegate from the Royal Society: this and the previous letter to be made known at the Ordinary Meeting. Letter from the Siamese Legation returning thanks for the proofs of papers on Krakatoa. Letter from the Danish Legation soliciting for the Royal Collections in Copenhagen, copies of any new medals since 1870: a copy of the Davy Medal in bronze to be presented. Letter from the University of Edinburgh inviting a delegate to attend the tercentenary celebrations, Lord Rayleigh nominated. Letter from the Royal Society of Edinburgh enclosing correspondence on the desirability of conducting a bathymetrical survey of Scottish freshwater lakes: the Secretaries directed to prepare a draft letter to the Treasury, recommending the survey. Letter from Henry Lefroy suggesting that Council should accept a large globe offered by Mr. Newton, declined. Letters of thanks for election from Foreign Members. Letter from Sir Richard Owen requesting the return of a paper on parts of a human skeleton found in Tilbury Forest, declined, but he may copy the paper. Leave granted to William Crookes for an electrotype of an illustration. List of bills for payment for drawing, lithography and carpentry. |