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RefNoCMP/6/21
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date18 March 1886
DescriptionPrinted 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: Robert Bellamy Clifton; James Dewar; William Henry Flower; Michael Foster; Archibald Geikie; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Henry Huxley; Sir Astley Cooper Key; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Henry Nottidge Moseley; Bartholomew Price; Charles Pritchard; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Arthur Schuster; the Treasurer [John Evans]; General James Thomas Walker; the President, George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: the death of Vice Admiral Sir Charles Shadwell and the withdrawal of E. P. Bouverie. The purchase of annuities on account of the Scientific Relief Fund by the Treasurer. The Society of Arts reply to a communication on the Albert Medal, the Secretary instructed to reply that the nomination of Louis Pasteur in 1881 was the private suggestion of the President. The Secretary of the Statistical Society to lay the Royal Society's letter before his Council. Counsel's opinion requested on the position of the Croonian Trust Fund. Croonian Lectures to be delivered by L. C. Wooldridge and W. Gardiner. Royal Society seal affixed to Foreign Member certificates. Dates for Government Grant Committees and referees appointed for renewal applications from T. Rupert Jones and Herbert Tomlinson. Donation Fund grants awarded to E. A. Schafer on behalf of J. R. Bradford and to S. J. Perry and Professor Balfour Stewart. The President requested of the Admiralty the use of a ship at Grenada, approved by both Council and Admiralty. Equipment designed by G. F. Rodwell and used by the Standards Department should be returned to the Science and Art Department, South Kensington, as paid for by the Government Grant. Charity Commission scheme for administering Christ's Hospital. Loan request from the Edinburgh International Exhibition for the portrait of Edmund Halley by Thomas Murray, agreed. Requests for electrotypes aand copies of documents. Soiree Committee report and request for £100 expenses. Publication Committee report with eleven listed recommendations, discussion deferred. Bills for printing and other services.
Extent4p; pp.78-81
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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