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: Robert Bellamy Clifton; William Henry Flower; Michael Foster; Archibald Geikie; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Henry Nottidge Moseley; Bartholomew Price; Charles Pritchard; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; William James Russell; Arthur Schuster; General Richard Strachey; the Treasurer [John Evans]; General James Thomas Walker; Alexander William Williamson; the President, George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Report of the Government Grant Committee, with appropriations of sums to appplicants by sub-committees A-C and Donation Fund grants recommended by the Committee. £20 to be granted from the Donation Fund to George James Symons for observations made on the tower of Lincoln Minster. News that a candidate for election, Dr, T. R. Lewis, had died since selection; Adam Sedgwick to be nominated in his place. A letter from the India Office about a communication from Colonel Herschel. Letter from the Statistical Society confirming that no change was to be made on initals of Fellowship. Letter from the Royal Society of Victoria, full text entered into the minutes, on the idea of some form of union between similar societies in British Colonies. A letter from Professor Becker of Heidelberg requesting a Royal Society representative to attend 500th anniversary celebrations at the university. A letter from Dr. Dreyer on presentations of the second Armagh Catalogue. Thanks from the American Philosophical Society for the presentation of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers. A request from the Glasgow Photographic Exhibition for objects on solar photography. Bills for printing. |