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RefNoCMP/7/39
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date2 May 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: Andrew Ainslie Common; William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Michael Foster; Sir Douglas Galton; Alexander Henry Green; Sir John Kirk; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Sir Joseph Lister; John Henry Poynting; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; 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: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of Carl Ludwig. President noted his conversation with H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg on his admission to the Society, Council vote on waiving subscription fees, carried. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, requesting advice on the presentation of copies of the Challenger Report, referred to the Challenger Committee. List of candidates selected for Fellowship, to be recommended at the annual meeting of 13 June, the list to be communicated to The Times and Nature. Treasurer presented a catalogue of papers from the Philosophical Transactions being offered for sale by Messrs. Dulau & Company. Report of the Kew Committee ordered to be printed in Proceedings. The two final volumes of the Challenger Report tabled. Leave granted to Adam Sedgwick to reprint lithographs from Lister's paper 'On the Foraminfera'. Bills for binding and other expenses.
Extent2p; pp.167-168
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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