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: Thomas George Bonney; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor; Sir Andrew Noble; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); William James Russell; Arthur Schuster; Dukinfield Henry Scott; George Johnstone Stoney; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: 1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved. 2. Deaths of John William Dawson and Dr. Henry Hicks. 3. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. 4. Letter from Richard Strachey, Meteorological Office, 63 Victoria Street, 16 November 1899, to Lord Lister, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements occasioned by the retirement of R. H. Scott as Secretary to the Meteorological Council and the proposed appointment of W. N. Shaw in his place, noting difficulties in salary. To be discussed at a subsequent meeting of Council on receipt of further information from Strachey.
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