| 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: William Edward Ayrton; William Henry Mahoney Christie; William Boyd Dawkins; Michael Foster; Archibald Geikie; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Hugo Muller; 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; The Treasurer, Sir John Evans; 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. Letter from the Director of the British Museum (Natural History) in thanks for the copy of Soldani's Testaceographia. Treasurer's report on conveyance of land required for the railway at Valencia. Letter from T. R. R. Stebbing asking if the Society would publish a descriptive bibliography of Cumacea, request refused. Dr. Forsyth appointed to Government Grant Board A in place of Professor Cayley, Boards to meet 7 May. Ladies' conversazione fixed for 17 June. Draft circular letter on the election of Fellows deferred until next meeting. Letter from Robert H. Scott, Meteorological Office, to the Secretary, Royal Society, full text entered into minutes, requesting that the Royal Society gives its assent to the Meteorological Council's application for Corporation status, approved. Kew Committee letter on same subject, also approved. Purchase of a portrait of Joseph Whitworth declined. £10 from the Scientific Relief Fund placed with Dr. Russell, for an applicant. Consideration of changes to the Scientific Relief Committee deferred. Letters realting to celebrations of Jean-Servais Stas, Hermann von Helmholtz and Rudolph Virchow; 100 francs or 100 marks donated to each with the request that medals struck be donated to the Society. Bakerian Lecture to be awarded by Council irrespective of the awardee presenting a paper. Sir William Bowman given permission to print 500 copies of the obituary of Professor Donders. Letter inviting the Society to sent representatives to the International Congress of Geologists, Washington, the Foreign Secretary selected. Purchase of a print portrait of Warington Smyth. Binding of plates within Philosophical Transactions. Lettre from Dr. Armstrong on discussions at ordinary meetings deferred. Permissions for copies of papers and electrotypes. Bills for printing and binding. |