| 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; Michael Foster; Archibald Geikie; 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; 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. Death of Henry Martyn Jeffery. Printed 'Declaration' and other papers received from Mr. Henry Wilde. List of President, Officers and members of Council to serve in the next year, this to be communicated to the public papers. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: Professor Stanislao Cannizzaro (Copley Medal), Arthur William Rucker (Royal Medal), Charles Lapworth (Royal Medal), Victor Meyer (Davy Medal). Nomination of Foreign Members by ballot, these to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting of Fellows: Alexander Agassiz, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Professor Strasburger and Professor Tacchini. Auditors nominated for the Treasurer's accounts. Treasurer reported that ground rents in the City were too high and should not be bought. £11,800 of residual mortgage payment invested in stocks and consols. Report of the Library Committee, including stocks of maps and charts to be presented to various institutions and French charts to the Bodleian Library; grants of Royal Society publications to receiving libraries. Report of the Catalogue Committee, a difference of opinion on whether the Catalogue of Scientific Papers should be continued beyond 1883, discussion deferred. Government Grant Fund applications: Mr. W. Saville Kent's application for £100 to study of corals in Fiji judged to have come too late for this year; Mr. D. E. Jones of Stafford, £35 for an investigation of Hertzian vibrations; John Murray on behalf of J. H. Cooke of Valetta £20 in aid of a geological investigation of Malta and adjacent islands; all judged urgent and granted from the Government Grant reserve. The Treasurer authorised to pay for repairs of instruments belonging to the Government Grant. Professor Angelo Mosso of Turin to be invited to deliver the Croonian Lecture. Agreement to purchase a typewriter at under £25. Grant of £15 from the Donation Fund to Mr. Carruthers in aid of Mr. E. J. Baker's visit to the Herbaria of Madrid and Geneva. Application from Dr. H. Woodward to defray the costs of illustrations in Mr. Hinde's work on sponges postponed. |