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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date27 October 1892
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: 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; Edward Albert Schafer; Sir George Gabriel Stokes; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Sydney Howard Vines; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of Frederick Le Gros Clark, Professor Carl Schorlemmer, Robert Lowe Viscount Sherborne, George Granville William Sutherland-Leveson Gower Duke of Sutherland, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Treasurer reported that Sir John Lubbock, Professor Rucker and Lord Rayleigh would act as Trustees in the mortgage carried out with the Duke of Norfolk, Treasurer authorised to raise necessary funds by sale of stocks. Mr. Howard, the tenant at Mablethorpe, offered a further reduction in rent and therefore had withdrawn notice to quit. Seal of the Society affixed to stock transfers pertaining to the Stevenson Bequest. Mr. Thiselton Dyer and Professors Bayley Balfour and Marshall Ward selected as delegates to the International Botanical Congress. Letters from the Admiralty and Foreign Office communicated to the Eclipse Committee and to be discussed at next Council. London County Council to contribute a second sum of £250 to the inquiry on microscopic pathogenic organisms in water and the Treasurer authorised to apply to the Government Grant Committee for a matching sum. Adjudication of Royal Society medals, including a withdrawal and a decease, with Professor Francois Marie Raoult to be proposed for a Davy Medal, the discussion adjourned. Nomination of Fellows to form a new Council, list of retiring Fellows, discussion adjourned. A further grant of £30 to Dr. Monckton Copeman from the Government Grant £500 for work on the bacteriology of vaccine lymph. Extension of admission to the Fellowship to Mr. B. N. Peach. Bills for printing, engraving, lithography and for other goods and services.
Extent3p; pp.1-3
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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