| 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Baron Clarke; Michael Foster; William Huggins; John Whitaker Hulke; John Wesley Judd; Edward Emanuel Klein; Edwin Ray Lankester; Herbert McLeod; Sir James Paget; William Pole; William Henry Preece; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Henry Enfield Roscoe; Edward John Routh; Arthur Rucker; 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. Letter from the Treasury, confirming that surplus copies of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers would be presented to the Royal Society. Tenders for publication of the newly completed decade of the Catalogue considered and the award made to Cambridge University Press, subject to negotiation. Proceeds from sales of back stock of the catalogue to be applied to the new publication. Application of the Treasury subsidy of £1,000. Stock certificate for the Darwin Memorial Fund received. Letter requesting that the President of the Medical Council be reimnstated as an ex-officio member of the Government Grant Committee, decision postponed. Letter from Louis Pasteur on the delivery of the Croonian Lecture, to be held in the Society's apartments; dates for this and the Bakerian Lecture. Applications for copies of the Krakatoa report, all declined. Report of the Soiree Committee, suggesting dates for the two annual conversaziones, additional refreshments, no diminuation of the number of invitations and requesting £120 for expenses, all approved. Application from Dr. Althaus to make extracts from Henry Oldenburg archives approved. Catalogue of Marchant's gems donated to the Society of Antiquaries, returned as a duplicate; this and the casts of gems to be presented to the Royal Academy. Professor Lankester's suggested purchase of Muybridge's 'Animal Locomotion' approved. Bill for Mablethorpe expenses. |