| 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: Andrew Ainslie Common; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Michael Foster; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Alexander Henry Green; Sir John Kirk; Sir Joseph Lister; Oliver Joseph Lodge; Sir John Lubbock; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Adam Sedgwick; William Augustus Tilden; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; William Cawthorne Unwin; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of John Tyndall. New members of Council subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Appointment of Vice-Presidents. Re-appointments of committees, with membership listed: Library Committee; Soiree and House Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee; Challenger Committee; Mountain Observatory Committee; Water Research Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; House Alterations Committee; Procedure Committee; Selection of Candidates Procedure Committee. Report of the House Alterations Committee recommending an increase of expenditure for the purchase of a lantern. Committee appointed to consider the best means of disposing of instruments stored in the instrument room. Box of negatives of the Total Solar Eclipse donated by the Lick Observatory. Committee formed to consider the memorial on the Catalogue of Scientific Papers. Bakerian Lecture decision deferred. Resolved to invite Professor Ramon-y-Cajal of Barcelona to deliver the next year's Croonian Lecture with Professor Engelmann of Utrecht as a reserve speaker. Report of the Joule Fund Committee, on stock investment, regulations fro administering the fund and the availability of funds for a Scholarship, a committee appointed to award this; report adopted. £150 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed with Professor Stewart and £100 with Sir Joseph Hooker, for the benefit of applicants. Letter from the Academy of National Sciences, Philadelphia requesting that the Society write to postal authorities in order to facilitate the international transmission of natural history specimens. Application of Mr. Scott-Elliott for a further grant of £350 in aid of a Tanganyika Expedition referred from the Chair of Government Grant Board D, provided with £350 from the £500 reserve. Mr. Boyce's application for grant support discussed, with a report from the Chair of Board G, deferred. £25 from the Donation Fund awarded to Professor Liveing to support Mr. W. J. Sell's chemical researches; £50 from the Donation Fund awarded to Mr. Thiselton Dyer, to enable a botanist to travel with Theodore Bent to Southern Arabia. Copies of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers sold to America accounted for at half the published price, less ten percent. Reduced selling price for Lendenfeld's work on horny sponges and copies to be disposed of via Mr. Quaritch or other booksellers. Application from Mr. George Higgs to reprint 100 copies of his last paper, granted. No representative to be sent to the International Congress of Applied Chemistry. Letter from Mr. Tuckermann tabled. Leave granted to Professor Church and to Mr. J. B. Hannay to make extracts from archival papers. £2,000 received from the Paymaster-General on account of the Government Grant. Agreement to employ Miss Millicent Turner in the Catalogue Department at a salary of £70. Authorisation for the employment of a junior clerk at no more than £40. Increases in staff salaries for Herbert Rix, Mr. James, Mr. White and Mr. Chapman. Bills for engraving, to Johnson Matthey & Company for medals, and other services. |