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RefNoCMP/6/86
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date29 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: William Henry Mahoney Christie; Michael Foster; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Hugo Muller; Alfred Newton; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir William Roberts; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Edward Albert Schafer; 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.

Also present, by invitation: Thomas George Bonney; Edward Frankland; Alfred Bray Kempe, members of the Statute Revision Committee.

Letters read from Professor Boyd Dawkins and Sir William Turner. Draft statutes considered statute-by-statute, with amendments agreed to Chapter 1, Statutes 7- 24. Remaining statutes deferred until next Council.
Extent2p; pp.345-346
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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