| 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; George Howard Darwin; William Turner Thiselton Dyer; David Ferrier; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Arthur Gamgee; Archibald Geikie; Joseph Henry Gilbert; John Hopkinson; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Bartholomew Price; Charles Pritchard; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir George Henry Richards; Arthur Schuster; Philip Lutley Sclater; The Treasurer [John Evans]; Alexander William Williamson; the President, George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Treasurer reporting payment of £400 to the Treasury, expended upon borings in the Nile Delta. Estimate of the cost of publishing the Krakatoa Committee report. Seal of the Society affixed to stock conversion. Report of the Government Grant Committee with lists of recommendations for grant allocations from Sub-committees A-C and B. Medal awards proposals and seconders: Joseph Dalton Hooker (Copley Medal); Colonel A. Clarke (Royal Medal); Osborne Reynolds (Royal Medal); Professor Moseley (Royal Medal); William Crookes (Davy Medal); John A. R. Newlands (Davy Medal). Address to Queen Victoria on the occasion of her jubilee, entered as full text into the minutes. £10 from the Donation Fund awarded to Mr. G. R. Vine to complete descriptions of the British fossil polyzoa. £30 from the Donation Fund to the Astronomer Royal, on behalf of Mr. H. H. Turner, for the adaption and freight of instruments to observe the total solar eclipse. £20 to W. Thiselton Dyer on behalf of Mr. W. B. Hemsley for an alphabetical list of vegetable productions and resources of the British Empire. £25 to Dr. S. H. Vines on behalf of Mr. Vaizey for investigations into mosses . Letter from Dr. Gill read and postponed until next Council. Professor G. Carey Foster re-nominated as a College Governor of Dulwich College. Bills for printing and other services, including 'Miss Woodward - Drawing'.
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