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CMP - Council Minutes, Printed
- 6 - Minutes of meetings of Council of the Royal Society, volume 6

RefNo	CMP/6/104
Level	Item
Title	Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date	16 June 1892
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 Royal Society medals, with proposers and seconders. Seal of the Royal Societ affixed to the diplomas of three new Foreign Members. Sir Archibald Geikie appointed a Goveror of Harrow School in place of John Tyndall. £300 from the Government Grant to be assigned to the Senior Secretary and Mr. Thiselton Dyer to enable Surgeon Parke to accompany the expedition to Kilimanjaro; a letter to be written to Sir W. A. Mackinnon requesting free passage to Zanzibar for Surgeon Parke. Letters from the Science and Art Department, on a forthcoming Geographical Congress at Genoa and the International Congresses of Prehistoric Anthropology, Archaeology and Zoology at Moscow, the Treasurer to represent the Society. Request from the International Congress of Orientalists to use the Society's meeting room, granted. Professor Burdon Sanderson added to the Water Research Committee. Omission of Council meetings in 1892-93. Publication of the Government Grant appropriation at the close of the Treasury's financial year. Treasurer's report that an order had been obtained for the payment out of Court of a sum from the Stevenson Bequest, amount unknown. Treasurer authorised to advance £12,000 to the Duke of Norfolk on a mortgage and to purchase of Trust Funds for the Stevenson Bequest. Letter from the Kew Committee on their inability to carry out two suggestions from Council. Letter from Mr. G. Bowdler Buckton offering to exchange a copy of his work on British Cicadae for a hand-coloured one, accepted. Letter from William Boggett claiming a reward under the will of Count Rumford acknowledged. £30 from the Donation Fund granted to Colonel Godwin-Austen to aid William Doherty in the collection of land molluscs in the Malay Archipelago. A further extension of admission to the Fellowship granted to Oliver Heaviside. Letter of thanks from the Oxford Union Junior Scientific Club for the loan of a Robert Boyle portrait. Report of the Catalogue Committee deferred. Leave granted for the copying of papers and electrotypes of illustrations. Treasurer reported that £2,000 had been credited to the Government Grant account by the Paymaster General. Bills for lithography and engraving.
Extent	4p; pp.417-420
Format	Printed
PhysicalDescription	On paper
AccessStatus	Open

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