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: William Wivesley Abney; William Henry Mahoney Christie; George Howard Darwin; Warren De La Rue; Robert Etheridge; William Henry Flower; Michael Foster; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Henry Nottidge Moseley; Hugo Muller; Andrew Noble; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; George Gabriel Stokes; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey; James Joseph Sylvester; the Treasurer [John Evans]; Alexander William Williamson; the President [Thomas Henry Huxley] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: the death of Franz Gustav Jakob Henle. A report of the Government Grant Committee and recommendations for allocations from sub-committees A, B and C, with procedures to be discussed at a Special Meeting of Council. £15 from the Donation Fund to Dr. J. T. Cash for research into intestinal movements. A letter from R. S. Welby, Treasury, on a certificate for proof of expenditure of the Government Grant. The Inland Revenue Bill. Recommendations for medals awards. Payment of annual subscription of Fellows in reduced circumstances from the Fee Reduction Fund. A letter from the Astronomer Royal proposing arangements for a committee to ensure the efficiency of the Madras [Chennai] and Bombay [Mumbai] Observatories. The President noting the impossibility of him continuing in office beyond the present session - discussion of this deferred. Payment of a bill for books.
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