| 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 Thomas Blanford; Alexander Crum Brown; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Archibald Geikie; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Frederick Ducane Godman; John Hopkinson; George Downing Liveing; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Arthur Milnes Marshall; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Edward Albert Schafer; Sir George Gabriel Stokes; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Sydney Howard Vines; General James Thomas Walker; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of candidates for Fellowship to be recommended to the Annual Meeting of Fellows., the list to be communicated to The Times and Nature. Nomination by ballot of four Foreign Members: Professor W. Kuhue, Professor E. Mascart, Dimitri Ivanovitch Mendeleeff and Professor Hubert Anson Newton. Treasurer authorised to pay the annual contribution of one Fellow from the Scientific Relief Fund. Application for £60 for the research expenses of the Colour-Vision Committee, agreed to be paid from the residue of the Government Grant. £100 from the Donation Fund to Mr. E. H. Griffiths for investigations into changes in the specific heat of water and the J value. Offer of £20 from Mr. F. Howard Collins to assist a biological investigator, consideration postponed. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee recommending the expansion of Societies that might recommend cases, to address accumulating funds. £100 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed with Professor Crum Brown and £25 with William Pullinger, for the benefit of applicants. Report of the Library Committee on grants and exchanges of journals. Report of the Kew Committee ordered to be printed in Proceedings. Draft articles of association of the Incorporated Kew Committe presented, steps to avoid confusion between Kew Gardens and Kew Observatory to be considered. Letter from the Royal Astronomical Society proposing a joint eclipse committee read, with a letter from the Solar Eclipse Committee; a committee to be formed to act in conjunction with the Astronomical Society. Offer of £80 from Drake & Gorham for electrical plant accepted. Leave granted for copying of papers and electrotyping of illustrations. Bills for printing, engraving, lithography and other services. |