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CMP - Council Minutes, Printed
- 6 - Minutes of meetings of Council of the Royal Society, volume 6

RefNo	CMP/6/99
Level	Item
Title	Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date	18 February 1892
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: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney; William Thomas Blanford; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Archibald Geikie; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Frederick Ducane Godman; John Hopkinson; George Downing Liveing; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Arthur Milnes Marshall; Philip Henry Pye-Smith; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Sir George Gabriel Stokes; 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. Deaths of Henry Walter Bates, Sir James Caird, William Dittmar, Clonel James Augustus Grant, Dr. Thomas Sterry Hunt, Sir George Edward Paget, Dr. Thomas Archer Hirst. £30 and £50 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed with Mr. Stone and General Tennant for the benefit of applicants. Report of the Electric Lighting Committee, recommending repairs and changes to supply, adopted. Professor Lockyer to replace Professor Rucker on Board B of the Government Grant with Professor Clifton or Lockyer to become Chair. Letter from Mr. Sackville Kent requesting that the grant awarded for Fiji coral research be devoted to another subject, the coral coast of Australia, referred to the Government Grant Committee. Memorandum from the Kew Committee to the Board of Trade presented for approval, to be granted if suggestions by the Society's solicitors were taken into account. Draft regulations for the conduct of Ordinary Meetings entered in full in the minutes and adopted. Draft letter on the international scheme for the Catalogue of Scientific Papers discussed and postponed. Letter from the Viceroy of India promising co-operation for Mr. Conway's expedition party. Dr. Buchan, Archibald Geikie, Professor Macaliser and the Earl of Rosse re-appointed to the Government Grant Committee. Letter of thanks from the Bacteriological Section of the Congress of Hygiene and Demography for the use of rooms. Publication of the deep sea deposits volume of the Challenger Report. Leave granted for copies of papers and the loan of a Krakatoa eruption chart to Rollo Russell. Purchase of Westwood House completed, £1,300 received from the Meteorological Council and passed over to Few & Company. Treasurer authorised to spend not more than £10 on the purchase of medals for the Society's collection. Bills for engraving, lithography and other services.
Extent	4p; pp.398-401
Format	Printed
PhysicalDescription	On paper
AccessStatus	Open

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