| 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; James Alfred Ewing; Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; 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 Alfred Louis Olivier Des Cloiseaux.
2. Mr. Thiselton Dyer's request to withdraw from the Lawes Committee, Horace T. Brown apointed in his place.
3. Committee appointed to consider electrical installation in the Society's house.
4. W. N. Shaw to fill a vacancy on the Meteorological Council in place of the late Mr. E. J. Stone.
5. Draft congratulatory address to H.M. the Queen on her sixtieth year on the throne, full text entered into the minutes; the Secretary to write to the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, to arrange for its presention by President and Council.
6. Letter from Sir J. Benjamin Stone, requesting nominations to a committee for a National Collection of Photographic Records, Professors Lapworth and Meldola nominated.
7. Letter from the Vicar of Eaglesfield asking the Society to bear the cost of a tablet commemorating John Dalton, £15 granted.
8. Administrative expenses for the Government Grant to be increased to £150.
9. Report of the Government Grant Committee, listing grants awarded by Boards A-G and from the Reserve Fund, with totals. Agreed that £500 should be placed in the Reserve Fund. West India Committee and the Sandwich Islands Committee to be re-appointed without grants. List of apparatus available under the Government Grant to be circulated among members of the Committee.
10. Application by Dr. Launder Brunton, a grant of £20 from the Donation Fund made to Mr. W. B. Hardy for investigations into the glow-worm and marine creatures.
11. Letter from the Admiralty, the Commander-in-Chief of the East Indies Station to give assistance to the solar eclipse expedition.
12. Report of the Committee considering the Buchanan Medal: the first award to Sir John Simon, but future awards to be made to younger researchers at five-year intervals, further consideraton postponed.
13. Report of the Committee appointed to consider the unification of time at sea: owing to the diversity of opinion among astronomers and sailors, the Society shoud take no further action, this to be communicated to the Royal Society of Canada.
14. Letter from the India Office forwarding copies of the Trevandrum Observations, part 2 volume 8, for distribution.
15. Professor Meldola reporting that an anonymous donor had offered to fund a Sylvester Medal, accepted: the award to be made triennially, to encourage research in pure mathematics.
16. Letter from the International Catalogue Committee requesting that Council appoint five members to a British Catalogue Committee, nominations made from attendees of the International Conference of July 1896.
17. Letter from Professor Lankester stating that the 'Index Animalium and Specierum' was not being prepared for publication and therefore was not suitable for a Publication Fund grant; further enquiries to be made by the Secretary.
18. Consideration of the relations of Sectional Committees to Council in the selection of candidates for Fellowship, deferred.
19. Bills for collotypes and stationery. |