| 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; 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; 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. Seal of the Society affixed to diplomas of three Foreign Members elected on 26 April [not minuted in that meeting]. List of candidates for the Fellowship selected by ballot to be recommended to the Annual Meeting on 7 June, the list to be communicated to The Times and Nature. The Treasurer's recommendations on Royal Society publishing considered and the Secretaries requested to 'bear them in mind'. Letter from the India Office requesting permission to reproduce an illustration from the Colour Vision Report, granted. £30 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed with Mr. Common, for the benefit of an applicant. Leave granted to Miss Agnes Clerke to make extracts from archives relating to John Pell. Leave granted to various requests for electrotypes and to Professor A. W. Worthington to have the loan of manuscripts of his papers. Bills for printing and for alteratiions and repairs to the Meting Room, Concil Room and basement. |