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RefNoCMP/7/35
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date22 February 1895
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: William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Michael Foster; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; Thomas Edward Thorpe; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Sir William Henry White; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted in continuation of an adjourned meeting. Deaths of John Whitaker Hulke and Rev. Thomas Penyngton Kirkman. President reported that he and members of Council had visited the Standards Department of the Board of Trade the previous morning, to inspect metric standards. Letter from Bryan Donkin offering to obtain a bust of the late Bryan Donkin FRS for the Society, offer accepted. Letter of condolence from the Royal Academy of Sciences Turin on the death of Professor Cayley. Presentation of the five-volume 'Biologia Centrali-Americana' by Ducane Godman and Osbert Salvin. Dr. Thorpe noting that new buildings were intended for Christ's Hospital, the Secretary to express the hope that these would include adequate facilities for science teaching. £50 from the Scientific Relief Fund placed with Mr. Thiselton Dyer for an urgent case applicant. Report of the House and Soiree Committee on conversazione dates and suggesting the limiting of informal receptions, approved. Letter from the Secretary of the Board of Works on changing the name of the Incorporated Kew Committee, opposed. Request from the Academie des Sciences that the Royal Society should form a committee for the Lavoisier memorial, rejected. Letter from Sir W. O. Priestley requesting the use of rooms for the British Medical Association allowed, but only those not in use by the Catalogue staff. Professor Sherrington allowed the use of diagrams prepared for the lecture by Professor Ramon y Cajal. Draft instructions intended for a committee adminstering a grant under the Government Grant scheme, full text entered into the minutes. Agreed to present a copy of volume 9 of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers to the Public Museum of Moscow. Leave granted for electrotype copying of illustrations, returns of tracings and copies of publications. Bills for printing and other expenses.

Extent4p; pp.151-154
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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