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RefNoCMP/6/85
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date15 January 1891
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: Henry Edward Armstrong; William Edward Ayrton; William Henry Mahoney Christie; William Boyd Dawkins; Michael Foster; Archibald Geikie; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Hugo Muller; Alfred Newton; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir William Roberts; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Sir George Gabriel Stokes; General Richard Strachey; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe; Sydney Howard Vines; General James Thomas Walker; the President, Sir William Thomson, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of Henry Bowman Brady, Professor John Casey, Dr. James Croll, Professor John Marshall and the Archbishop of York. Letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby relaying the Queen's permission to have a copy Royal Medal struck. Letter from the India Ofice accepting the transfer of meteorological and tidal manuscripts. Letter from the Board of Trade with thanks for the appointment of delegates to the Electrical Standards Committee. Few & Company's request for Trustees for a pending mortgage from the Duke of Norfolk's Trustees, four Fellows nominated. The solicitors report that any liability in the matter of the Lane-Fox Electrical Company rests with Messrs. Drake and Gorham, no further steps to be taken. Exchange of letters, full text entered into the minutes, between Robert H. Scott, Secretary to the Meteorological Council, Frank Mowatt, Treasury and Michael Foster, Royal Society, on the lease of a building at Valencia, Ireland, for use as a meteorological station; £1,400 to be paid by the Meteorological Council and the property to be held in the name of the Royal Society. George Darwin to deliver the Bakerian Lecture on tidal prediction. Victor Horsley and Francis Gotch to deliver the Croonian Lecture, on the mammalian nervous system. Annual reminder to be sent to the Presidents of the seven chartered Societies on the purposes of the Scientific Relief Fund; £100 to be placed with Professor Geikie for an applicant to the Fund. Report of the Statutes Revision Committee considered and deferred to a special meeting of Council, the committee members to attend. Mr. Buchan and Dr. Geikie reappointed to the Government Grant Committee. Lists of nominations to replace retiring members on Boards A-G, with elections to be held on 19 February. Letter from Professor Haswell of the University of Sydney requesting assistance to establish a Marine Biological Station, £50 from the Donation Fund to be allocated on the suggestion of Professor Lankester. Bills for binding, lithography and other goods and services.
Extent6p; pp.339-344
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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