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 Henry Mahoney Christie; George Howard Darwin; Warren De La Rue; Robert Etheridge; William Henry Flower; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Hugo Muller; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; George Gabriel Stokes; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey; James Joseph Sylvester; the Treasurer [John Evans]; the President [Thomas Henry Huxley] in the chair.
Matters discussed or noted in a brief meeting: minutes read and confirmed. A letter from the Foreign Office covering a despatch recommending Professor Roy and Mr. Sherrington to H.M. Minister in Madrid. The Treasurer empowered to pay sums from the Scientific Relief Fund as recommended by the Scientific Relief Committee over the Summer recess.
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