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RefNoCMP/7/54
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date26 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; Edwin Ray Lankester; Charles Lapworth; Major Percy Alexander MacMahon; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton; the President, Sir Joseph Lister, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: admission of strangers to the discussion meeting on colour photography should follow the usual rules. Various amendments to Standing Orders proposed and voted upon: full text entered into the minutes of the revised Standing Orders of Council Relating to Meetings, Sectional Committees, and Publications; including on Philosophical Transactions, Proceedings, and on the publication of a Yearbook.
Extent11p; pp.254-264
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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