| 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; 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. Deaths of Samuel James Augustus Salter and James Joseph Sylvester; representation of the Society at Professor Sylvester's funeral.
2. Johannes Wislicenus nominated by ballot and agreed to be proposed as a Foreign Member, to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting.
3. Seal of the Society affixed to the diplomas of five Foreign Members.
4. Dr. Hugo Muller appointed as Chair of the Government Grant Review Committee.
5. 'On the mechanical equivalent of heat' by Osborne Reynolds and W. H. Moorby to be the Bakerian Lecture delivered on 20 May.
6. Informal receptions to be held on 1 April and 13 May.
7. Letter from Professor Marshall Ward asking that his unpublished report to the Water Research Committee be returned; agreed that a copy be sent and the original retained by the Society.
8. Water Research Committee requested to consider publishing a summary of Marshall Ward's paper in Proceedings.
9. Printing expenses incurred by the International Catalogue Commiittee to be defrayed from the £250 granted to the committee.
10. Further consideration of the revised regulation for the administration of the Scientific Relief Fund, the regulation entered as full text into the minutes.
11. Mr. Thiselton Dyer's resolution on the creation of a Finance Committee of Council, not seconded.
12. Terms of adjudication of the Buchanan Medal referred to a committee created for that purpose.
13. Treasury's acceptance of a form of words on the Government Grant for use in the Parliamentary Estimates.
14. Short account of Malpighi's connection to the Royal Society written by the Senior Secretary sent to Bologna.
15. Mr. Thiselton Dyer's appointment to the governing body of Westminster School a misapprehension; Professor Bonney had replaced Sir Lyon Playfair.
16. Leave granted to Dr. Waller to copy an illustration.
17. Bills for 'Turkey Carpets for Tea Room' and other expenses. |