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; Sir Benjamin Baker; Isaac Bayley Balfour; William Thomas Blanford; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Archibald Geikie; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Frederick Ducane Godman; John Hopkinson; Joseph Norman Lockyer; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury; Adam Sedgwick; William Augustus Tilden; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Adjudication of Royal Society medals with brief citations: Sir George Gabriel Stokes (Copley Medal), Arthur Schuster (Royal Medal), Harry Marshall Ward (Royal Medal), J. H. Van't Hoff and J. A. Le Bel (Davy Medal). List of Presdent, Officers and Fellows to serve on Council from Anniversary Day, these names to be circulated to the public papers. Nomination of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts. Treasurer's report on the purchase of stock from the Earl of Derby's legacy and on the repayment of £200 from money lent to the Kew Committee. Dr. Ferrier appointed Chair of Government Grant Committee Board G in place of Sir William Roberts. Representative for the International Congress of Applied Chemistry in Brussels, discussion deferred. Publication in 'Chemical News' of a statement by Mr. Tuckerman on preparing a subject-index for the Catalogue of Scientific Papers, the Secretary instructed to write to Tuckerman. Letter from the Secretary of the Rae Memorial to be placed on the notice board. Letter from Mr. Boyce requesting Government Grant aid referred to the Chair of Board G. Committee appointed to consider Mr. Sedgwick's memorandum. Discussion of the memorial on the Catalogue of Scientific Papers deferred. Bills for printing, engraving and other expenses. |