| 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: Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; William Huggins; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Charles Lapworth; Major Percy Alexander MacMahon; John Henry Poynting; 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. Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Academy acknowledging the letter of sympathy on the death of Lord Leighton. Letter from the Secretary of State for Home Affairs returning thanks for assistance on compressed gas cylinders, thanks to be conveyed to the Fellows involved. Letter from the Secretary of the Board of Trade asking that two nominations be made for a committee to research loss of strength in steel rails after prolonged use, Professors Kennedy and Roberts-Austen proposed. Amendments to the Regulations for the Administration of the Government Grant considered and adopted: full text of the regulations entered into the minutes; with appendices, Instructions for the Government Grant Boards and Instructions for a Committee Appointed for the Purpose of Administering a Grant under Section 23. Resolution that the Government Grant Committee report on material procured by Mr. Caldwell, its use, and why it has not been handed over to the Royal Society, this to be sent to the Chairman of Board F. Treasurer authorised to advance a further £200 to the Coral Reef Committee and authorised to spend up to £200 on improvements to the apartments of the Assistant Secretary. £25 from the Donation Fund granted to Dr. Vaughan Harley, continuing his researches on absorption in the alimentary canal. Leave granted to Professor Ramsay to use the Society's stock of palladium. President and Treasurer to represent the Society at a celebration of Lord Kelvin's fifty-year tenure of the chair of natural philosophy at Glasgow. The Senior Secretary to represent the Society at a 150-year celebration of Princeton University. The Society unable to appoint a delegate to the Russian National Health Society's celebration of Dr. Jenner's first vaccination experiment. Balloting on the repeal of Statutes and the adoption of drafted replacements. Replacements and notes to Standing Orders. Leave granted for the borrowing of papers and electrotype copying of illustrations. Bills for engraving and other expenses. |