Record

RefNoCMP/7/52
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date5 March 1896
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: Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; William Huggins; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Charles Lapworth; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Harry Marshall Ward; Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton; the President, Sir Joseph Lister, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Treasurer's advance to the Coral Reef Committee increased from £250 to £350. Letter from General Strachey asking to be excused from chairing Government Grant Board B, owing to ill-health; William Cawthorne Unwin elected in his place. Communication from Mr. A. B. Kempe on proposed changes to Standing Orders on meetings and publications read: these would be in conflict with the Society's Statutes and therefore the Statutes must be changed, or the new Standing Orders abandoned. Two schemes, A and B, are proposed to overcome the difficulty, with the full text of each entered into the minutes. Council debated and proposed a variety of amendments to Statutes, further consideration of which was postponed.
Extent7p; pp.235-241
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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