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RefNoCMP/7/21
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date19 April 1894
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: 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; Sir John Lubbock; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Adam Sedgwick; Thomas Edward Thorpe; 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. Deaths of Charles Synge Christopher Lord Bowen, Charles Edouard Brown-Sequard, James Lord Hannen, William Pengelly, and Jean Charles Galissard de Marignac. Letter from the Kew Committee asking whether a further audit is required; letter from Mr. Keen stating that he thought an audit would be desirable, and so ordered at 5 guineas. Report of the Kew Committee presented and ordered to be printed in the Proceedings. Letter from Dr. Suess suggesting that he raise the topic of international co-operation on the Catalogue of Scientific Papers at a joint meeting of international academies on pendulum observations, so authorised. Leave granted to the Royal Statistical Society to reprint a paper by Professor Korosi and a supplementary paper by Francis Galton; leave granted for an electrotype from the same paper to the Editor of Nature. Leave granted to Mr. T. T. Groom to borrow original illustrations on Cirripedia. Candidates for the Fellowship considered and adjourned. Bills for printing and other expenses.
Extent2p; pp.85-86
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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