| 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; Frederick Ducane Godman; John Hopkinson; George Downing Liveing; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Arthur Milnes Marshall; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Edward Albert Schafer; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Sydney Howard Vines; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of George William Wilshire Lord Bramwell, Professor August Wilhelm von Hofmann and Professor James Thomson. Report of the Government Grant Committee read, with list of grants awarded by Boards A-G entered into the minutes, with grants awarded from the residue controlled by Council; report confirmed and ordered to be sent to committee members. First report of the Water Research Committee received and ordered to be printed in the Proceedings, copies to be sent to the London County Council and Royal Commission on the Metropolitan Water Supply. Thanks received from the Board of Trade for the report of the Colour Vision Committee, which will be laid before both Houses of Parliament; the report ordered to be printed in the Proceedings. Request from the Superintendent of the Kew Observatory to lend pendulum apparatus to the Government Astronomer at Melbourne, approved. Letter from the Royal Astronomical Society acknowledging representatives to the Joint Solar Eclipse Committee, the first meeting to be on 27 May. £50 from the Donation Fund granted to Dr. Hans Gadow for investigations into Elasmobranch fishes; £30 to Professor Schafer to assist Dr. Haycraft in research on the intimate nature of secretion. £30 from the Government Grant to Dr. Copeman for research into the bacteriology of the vaccine lymph. Leave granted to Captain Abney to borrow Mr. Birt's telescope, now at the Royal Society. Leave granted to the Oxford University Junior Scientific Club to borrow a portrait of Robert Boyle, on condition that expenses were covered and a member of Royal Society staff accompanied the painting. Leave granted to Messrs. Schuster and Crossley to republish their Proceedings paper on electrolysis of silver. Lists of candidates' names for Royal Society medals. Bills for printing and bookbinding. |