| 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; Henry Bowman Brady; Charles Baron Clarke; Michael Foster; William Huggins; John Wesley Judd; Edward Emanuel Klein; Edwin Ray Lankester; Herbert McLeod; William Henry Preece; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Henry Enfield Roscoe; The Treasurer [John Evans]; William James Lloyd Wharton; Alexander William Williamson; the President, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of Dr. John Percy. List of candidates for Royal Society medals, with proposers and seconders. £100 from the Handley Fund to be used for the Fund to be set up by the Lord Mayor of London to acknowledge the debt of gratitude owed to the Institut Pasteur. Professor Lankester's motion on personal grant allocations from the Government Grant Fund withdrawn; the Boards reminded of their powers and the Officers to consult with solicitors on a form to be signed by grant recipients to guarantee compliance and the return of unused funds. Amendments to Government Grant regulations agreed. Sums of £35 and £200 allocated from the Scientific Relief Fund. Recommendations from the Scientific Relief Committee on relief of fees and an irregular payment of £50, Council noting the conditions attached to Lord Armstrong's donation. £50 allocated to Charles Piazzi Smyth for apparatus already procured from Mr. Apps. £50 of Government Grant allocated to Dr. Sherrington from the £500 reserve. An application from Professor Grant for £300 for investigating Glasgow Observatory meteorological observations deferred. Leave granted to James Bonwick to make extracts from the Journal Books relating to New South Wales and the platypus. Colonel Herschel's manuscript bibliography returned to the Society. Negatives from the Eclipse Expedition of 1886 should be preserved in the Society's roooms. Arrears of Philosophical Transactions granted. Authorisations for the Treasurer to pay bills, Scientific Relief Funds grants and on account of the Lendenfeld monograph during recess. Library books to be returned by 31 July. Annual leave granted to the Assistant Secretary. Bills for paper, binding lighting, soiree flowers and other services.
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