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CMP - Council Minutes, Printed
- 7 - Minutes of meetings of Council of the Royal Society, volume 7

RefNo	CMP/7/47
Level	Item
Title	Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date	30 November 1895
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; Francis Darwin; Andrew Russell Forsyth; Michael Foster; Sir Douglas Galton; Sir John Kirk; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Sir Joseph Lister; John Henry Poynting; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Osbert Salvin; Thomas Edward Thorpe; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; the President, William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, in the chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of Surgeon-Major George Edward Dobson. Letter from Sir Fleetwood Edwards noting the Queen's approval of the award of Royal Medals. Letters of thanks from medallists tabled. Report of the Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. £25 from the Scientific Relief Fund awarded to a recently deceased applicant to be transferred to his daughter. Letter from Dr. Pavy, acknowledged. Letter from W. W. Watts, Secretary of the Coral Reef Committee, 28 Jermyn Street, 14 November 1895, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: £20 requested to defray the costs of telegraphing to Australia and requesting that Captain Field of H.M.S. Penguin, to be used in the exploration of Funafuti, be added to the Committee, both suggestions approved. Letter from Dr. Sclater proposing a meeting of discussion on scientific aspects of Antarctic exploration, Council deciding that it would be better held at a later time. Report of the Assistant Secretary Appointment Committee, reproducing an advertisement to be placed in the press, report adopted and the advertisement approved, with the caveat that no Fellow could hold the office. Copy of M. Janssen's letter on the Mont Blanc Observatory to be copied to the Royal Astronomical Society. Five Foreign Member candidates nominated by ballot: Professor Albert Gaudry, Professor F. Kohlrausch, Mr. S. P. Langley, Professor Sophus Lie and Professor Elias Metschnikoff, election at the next Ordinary Meeting. Senior Secretary statement on changes to Statutes, with a proposal to consider the compatibility of Standing Orders at next Council. Leave granted to the Huxley Memorial Committee to use Society rooms. Leave granted for copying of papers and illustrations, and for Professor Cunningham to have the loan of Professor Dixon's archived manuscript on the fifth cranial nerve. Bill for the accountants.
Extent	3p; pp.213-215
Format	Printed
PhysicalDescription	On paper
AccessStatus	Open

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