| 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: Isaac Bayley Balfour; Andrew Ainslie Common; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Michael Foster; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; Alexander Henry Green; Sir John Kirk; Sir Joseph Lister; Oliver Joseph Lodge; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Adam Sedgwick; Thomas Edward Thorpe; William Augustus Tilden; 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. Government Grant Boards to meet on 3 May. Nomination of three candidates for Foreign Member: Henry Ernest Baillon, Henri Poincare and Eduard Suess. Report of the Catalogue Committee on subject indexing of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers: noting the need to communicate with the President of the American Association; proposing a nine subject division of the sciences and listing sub-commitees, with membership, to deal with each; Ludwig Mond to be asked if his gift shoud be used for the rapid publication of the catalogue by author name only, and Mond to enquire whether the Smithsonian Institution had any intention of making a subject index to the Catalogue; futher consideration deferred. Letter from the Royal Astronomical Society on forming a joint Eclipse Committee. Re-appointment of members of the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee. Professor Thorpe to represent the Society on the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital. Amended draft of instructions for the Government Grant Boards approved, full text entered into the minutes. Letter from J. L. Bristowe, 13 Old Burlington Street, 26 February 1894, to Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the Society taking responsibility for administering the Sir George Buchanan medal and award, with conditions; Council's agreement, with one amendment to the conditions. Photographs of the total solar eclipse presented by the Lick Observatory to be given to Mr. H. F. Newall for the Newall Telescope at Cambridge. Philosophical Transactions to be despatched by post in future, rather than by forwarding agents, a request to be made for the Society to receive exchanges in the same way. £50 from the Donation Fund to Sir Archibald Geikie, to aid in the geological researches of Miss Maria Matilda Ogilvie [later Gordon]; £25 to Professor Burdon Sanderson to aid Mr. H. M. Vernon in physiological reseaches. Omission of certain Council meetings for the year and the date of election of Fellows to be changed to 13 June 1895. Letter from Mr. J. W. Newray desiring the award of a Royal Medal for a memoir sent by him, the Secretary to reply that this was denied. £15 gratuity to be awarded to George Kennedy, the hall porter, after an illness. Purchase of bonds for the Gassiot Trust. Letter from the International Congress of Orientalists tabled. The Earl of Rosse and Professor Macalister re-appointed to the Government Grant Committee. Leave granted for electrotypes of illustrations and to Dr. Wynne Baxter for photography. Bills for electric lighting and carpets. |