| 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: Captain William de Wiveleslie Abney; Sir Benjamin Baker; Isaac Bayley Balfour; William Thomas Blanford; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Archibald Geikie; Richard Tetley Glazebrook; John Hopkinson; John Gray McKendrick; William Davidson Niven; William Henry Perkin; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Adam Sedgwick; William Augustus Tilden; 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 Sir Richard Owen. New members of Council subscribe to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Letter from the Foreign Office suggesting that the British and French Eclipse Expeditions be put in contact with each other, approved. War Office permission for Sergeant Kearney to accompany the Eclipse Expedition to Senegambia granted. Communications received on observation of the Eclipse in Brazil. Copy of 'Die Entdeckung America's' presented. Dr. Pole declines to serve on the Colour-vision Committee. Report from Dr. Darwin on attending the Galileo celebration in Padua. Sir Joseph Lister and Sir Henry Roscoe attendance at the Pasteur celebration in Paris. Loan of Kater's and Appold's hygrometers to the South Kensington Museum approved. List of appointments to the Government Grant Boards A-G and elections of Chairmen. Meeting Room granted to consider a memorial for Sir Richard Owen. £100 from the Scientific Relief Fund placed with Lord Kelvin and £50 with Professor Crum Brown for applicants, approval for another £50 allocation given during the Summer recess. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee on the case of Mr. Whipple, enquiries to be made of the Kew Committee on pension provision. Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Irish Academy added to the list of organisations whose Presidents may recommend to the Scientific Relief Committee. Treasurer authorised to purchase consols for the Scientific Relief Fund. George Carey Foster re-appointed as a Governor of Dulwich College. £30 from the Donation Fund to Michael Foster to assist Dr. Edkins on research on absorption from the alimentary canal. Professor Virchow to give the Croonian Lecture. Permission granted to Mr. A. F. Hill to reprint Dr. Huggins' paper on the violin. Miss Edith Rix engaged as an assistant in the Catalogue Department, salary £70. Dividends of the Winteringham Fund to be paid to the Foundling Hospital. Treasurer's notice on purchase of stocks, seal to the Society affixed to these and to a deed of indemnity in the purchase of Westwood House. Paymaster-General requested to continue payment of the Stevenson Bequest dividends to Messrs. Few & Company. List of securities placed with Few & Company. An additional sum of returned income tax received. Leave granted for various copies of papers and electrotypes. Bills for printing, engraving and lithography. Letter from Ludwig Mond, The Poplars, 20 Avenue Road, Regent's Park, 3 December 1892, to Lord Kelvin, full text entered into the minutes; offer of £2,000 to aid in the Catalogue of Scientific Papers. |