| 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 Professor Carl Weierstrass, a letter of condolence to be sent to his brother, Dr. Peter Weierstrass.
2. Professor Johannes Wislicenus of Leipzig to be selected for nomination for Foreign Membership at next Council.
3. Mr. O. Salvin to be elected Chairman of Government Grant Board F.
4. Committee appointed to report on the scientific results of the Government Grant and on the desirability of such reporting annually.
5. Request from Professor E. J. Mills that a certificate of candidature should be suspended in the usual way despite being delayed in transit, request declined.
6. Report from the Chairman of the Coral Boring Committee noting that an unauthorised report on the recent expedition had been published by Mr. Hedley of the Australian Museum. A letter of remonstrance to be sent.
7. Authorities at Sydney would be willing to renew the attempt at boring a coral reef with support and a ship. £100 granted from the Donation Fund and a letter to be sent to the Admiralty.
8-9. £15 from the Donation Fund awarded to Dr Hicks for the expenses of the Rev. G. C. H. Pollen in excavating a cavern at Tremeirchion, Wales. £50 to the President for the assistance of Dr. Copeman in researches on variola and vaccinia.
10. Application to the Publication Fund from Dr. Sclater and Mr. Bather referrred to the Sectional Committee for Zoology.
11. Committee on Measurements of Plants and Animals to be renamed the Evolution (Plants and Animals) Committee.
12. Recommendation of the Sectional Committee on Physics and Chemistry that a discussion meeting be held on 25 March, based upon Lockyer's paper on the chemistry of the hottest stars.
13. Report of the Council of the Government of Mauritius recommending recognition of Dr. C. Meldrum's researches, the President requested to attempt to secure a civil list pension for Meldrum.
14. Memorandum from Michael Foster on the teaching of science in schools and the calling of a committee of Fellows to consider this. Fellows representing the Society on the governing boards of public schools to be invited to meet President and Council to confer.
15. Request for a delegate to be sent to a Sanitary Congress in Leeds, declined.
16. Increases in the salaries of named members of staff.
17. Letter of thanks from Professor G. Lippmann for Foreign Membership election.
18. Medals presented to the Society by Professor Cannnizzaro and by Princeton University received.
19. Leave granted to the Editor of Nature to reproduce illustrations.
20 Bills for printing and other expenses. |