| 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; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. Death of Edward James Stone.
2. Letter from Dr. Launder Brunton stating that Mr. A. Beit wishes to contribute £200 to the expenses of the Tsetse Fly enquiry, enclosing a cheque; offer accepted with thanks.
3. Letter from the Secretary to the Admiralty in support of Dr. G. H. Fowler's explorations off the Orkney Islands.
4. Letter addressed to the Admiralty requesting assistance to the Eclipse Expedition of January 1898.
5. Professor Marshall Ward allowed to borrow his unpublished report to the Water Research Committee.
6. Professor Weldon's point of order on the reading of a letter from the Chairman of the Sectional Committee for Zoology.
7. List of candidates for Fellowship selected by ballot to be recommended for election at the Annual Meeting of Fellows.
8. Thanks given to Mr. J. Y. Buchanan for the presentation of a photogravure portrait of George Buchanan.
9. Letters of thanks from Anton Dohrn and Professor Wislicenus.
10. Earl of Rosse and Professor A. Macalister re-appointed to the Government Grant Committee.
11. £2,000 on account of the Government Grant and £500 on account of the Publication Grant received from the Paymaster-General by the Society's bankers.
11a. Letter from the Foreign Office conveying an invitation from the Russian Ambassador to send representatives to the International Geological Congress in St. Petersburg, Sir Archibald Geikie and Professor T. McKenny Hughes to attend.
12. Leave granted for copying of various illustrations.
13. Bills for printing, paper and other expenses. |