| 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: Andrew Ainslie Common; William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Michael Foster; Sir Douglas Galton; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Sir Joseph Lister; Alexander Macalister; John Henry Poynting; 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: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of Sir George Bucahan, Surgeon-Major Henry John Carter and Roundell Palmer, Earl of Selborne. Report of the Government Grant Committee, listing grants awarded by Boards A-G with totals and the allocation of £500 to Council as a Reserve Fund. Recommendation of Board D to apply to the Admiralty for the services of a survey vessel referred to a committee created for that purpose. Letter from Professor Green resigning from Council, Professor Bonney nominated in his place. Mr. Burbury added to the Committee for the Measurement of Plants and Animals. Letter from the Society of Arts soliciting suggestions for awarding the Albert Medal, deferred to next Council. Letter from Mr. Primrose requesting a change of name for the Incorporated Kew Committee, referred to the Kew Committee. Letter from H. F. Newall requesting the use of the Mountain Observatory Committee's hut, referred to that Committee. Letter from the Science and Art Department requesting Fellows of the Royal Society to act as delegates to the International Congress of Zoology, Leiden, some names nominated. £30 from the Donation Fund awarded to Arthur Gamgee for research on the absorption of haemoglobin. Application of Messrs. Strange, Graham and Dixon, arriving too late for the Government Grant Committee, Professor Dixon to be consulted. Mr. Thiselton Dyer, Sir William Flower and Mr. Salvin to be added to the Challenger Committee. Letter from R. H. Gunning, 12 Addison Crescent, Kensington, 15 April 1895, to Michael Foster, full text entered into the minutes: approving of plans for the Gunning Fund and noting his intention to increase the capital amount. Letter from the Clerk to the Council of Almoners of Christ's Hospital, reassuring Council that ample classroom and laboratory space had been allowed for in architect's plans for new buildings. Letter from the Federated Institution of Mining Engineers on the cost of postage of transactions for learned societies, referred to Mr. Preece, another letter deferred. Letter from Messrs. Heywood & Company asking if advertisements might be placed in the Society's publications, reply in the negative. Leave granted for electrotypes of illustrations. Lists of suggestions for Foreign Membership candidates, five names to be nominated by ballot at a subsequent meeting. |