| 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 Wivesley Abney; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Warren De La Rue; Robert Etheridge; Sir Frederick John Owen Evans; William Henry Flower; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Henry Nottidge Moseley; Hugo Muller; Andrew Noble; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; George Gabriel Stokes; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey; James Joseph Sylvester; the Treasurer [John Evans]; Alexander William Williamson; the President [Thomas Henry Huxley] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: the selection of candidates for Fellowship, with a list of those to be recommended for election on the 4 June meeting, the list to be communicated to The Times. William Huggins to be appointed Bakerian Lecturer. Preliminary lists of names proposed for the Copley, Royal and Davy medals. Seal affixed to the diplomas of two Foreign Members, Alfred Cornu and James Dwight Dana. Letters read from the Fishmongers' Company, from George James Allman requesting (and denied) support for illustrations for a paper published by the Linnaean Society, and from Francis Galton on behalf of Croom Robertson, wishing to photograph a portrait of Thomas Hobbes (permission granted). Cleaning and repairing of the basement and printing services bills.
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