| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: William Grylls Adams; Thomas Clifford Allbutt; Robert Bellamy Clifton; William Turner Thiselton Dyer; James Alfred Ewing; Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; William Holbrook Gaskell; Alfred George Greenhill; William Huggins; Charles Lapworth; Major Percy Alexander MacMahon; Raphael Meldola; William Ramsay; Arthur William Rucker; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Thomas de Grey, Lord Walsingham; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. Death of Charles Tomlinson.
2. President's report on his action with regard to bubonic plague.
3. Treasurer reporting he had declined to purchase the portrait of Sir Humphry Davy.
4. Foreign Secretary reporting on the appointment of M. Jean Perrin to the Joule Studentship.
5. Proposal that Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers be placed on the list of candidates for Foreign Membership rejected by vote. Nomination of five candidates to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting: M. E. H. Amagat, Professor Ferdinand Cohn, Professor J. Willard Gibbs, Professor Rudolph P. H. Heidenhain and Dr. Robert Koch.
6. Draft of a letter from the President to other learned society Presidents, full text entered into the minutes: on the establishment of a Victoria Research Fund to celebrate the Queen's 60th anniversary.
7. Mr. A. Sedgwick appointed to Government Grant Board F.
8. Meeting dates for Government Grant Boards and Committee.
9. Report of the Soiree Committee on dates and expenses for two conversaziones and on improvements to the tea room, appproved.
10. Letter from Mr. H. F. Newall requesting the loan of equipment returned by Charles Piazzi Smyth, approved.
11. President and Officers empowered to take [unspecified] actions on behalf of Council before its next meeting.
12. A Council meeting to be held on 4 March.
13. Thanks given to Dr. James Finlayson for the gift of a mezzotint portrait of Dr. Robert Watt.
14. Leave granted to Dr. M. Wildermann to copy his paper from the archives and for illustration copies to the Editor of Nature.
15. Bills for books, for R. E. G. Kirk for collating the Charters for the 'Record' and for other expenses. |