| 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: Thomas George Bonney; Andrew Ainslie Common; William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Michael Foster; Sir Douglas Galton; Sir John Kirk; Edwin Ray Lankester; Sir Joseph Lister; Alexander Macalister; John Henry Poynting; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; Thomas Edward Thorpe; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of Charles Cardale Babington, Dr. John Syer Bristowe, Sir John Tomes, Henry Ernest Baillon, Sven Ludwig Loven and Louis Pasteur. Letter from Henrietta Huxley, Hodeslea, Eastbourne, 23 July 1895, to Michael Foster, full text entered into the minutes: reply to the expression of condolence on the death of T. H. Huxley. Treasurer and the Foreign Secretary had represented the Society at the funeral of Louis Pasteur, in the absence of the President; letter from Mr. Dyer, reporting his attendance. Congratulatory address from Lord Kelvin to the Academie des Sciences, full text entered into the minutes: on the centenary of the Academie; the President and Treasurer to represent the Society at any celebrations, if required. Letter from the Admiralty promising the use of H.M.S. Penguin in aid of the expedition to bore into a Pacific coral atoll; Professor Bonney reported an estimate of costs, decision deferred to next Council. Sir John Kirk reported on the agreement made with Mr. Scott-Elliot on the distribution of botanical specimens from the Tanganyika and Uganda expedition, approved. Letter from Dr. A. D. Waller on the delivery of the Croonian Lecture. Report of the Library Committee, on shelf space, exchanges and grants of publications, adopted. No delegates sent in repsonse to an invitation to the International Congress of Americanists. £30 from the Donation Fund granted to Mr. Thiselton Dyer for Theodore Bent's plant collecting on the littoral of the Red Sea; £25 to Sir Archibald Geikie in support of Mr. John Horne's research on glacial clays; £50 to the Senior Secretary to purchase a microscope and other equipment for Mr. W. Poole, Medical Officer stationed at Zomba, Central African Protectorate. Leave granted for reproduction of illustrations in the Krakatoa Report. Letter of thanks for the loan of rooms by the Egypt Exploration Fund. Leave granted for extracts for the archives, electrotypes of illustrations, and for photography of portraits. Extension of admission to the Fellowship granted to Mr. John Elliot. Death announced of Arthur Crick. Bills for printing, paper, lithography, books and other expenses. |