| 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: Horace Tabberer Brown: James Bryce; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Sir Andrew Noble; Arnold William Reinold; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); George Johnstone Stoney; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Edward Burdett Tylor; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Death of Professor David Edward Hughes.
3. The Executors of David Edward Hughes noting a bequest of £4,000 in his will, directed to create a Royal Society Medal: further consideration deferred.
4. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to an address to the Berlin Academy of Sciences on their 200th anniversary.
5. President mentioned two cases that he intended to refer to the Scientific Relief Fund.
6. Report of the Soiree Committee on dates and arrangements for the annual events.
7. Senior Secretary had consulted the Sectional Committee on Physiology on the subject of the Croonian Lecture: Professor Paul Ehrlich to be asked to lecture on immunity. If he cannot, Professor Pavlov might be asked to lecture on secretion.
8. Junior Secretary had consulted with the Sectional Committee on Physics and Chemistry on the subject of the Bakerian Lecture: Professor Tilden to be asked to lecture on the specific heat of metals.
9. Acknowledgement from the Berlin Academy of Sciences of the Society's letter on International Association of Academies, asking that the Society nominate delegates.
10. Application from the editors of The Photogram to make a photographic copy of W. H. Fox Talbot's original manuscript on photography.
11. Letter from R. Strachey, Meteorological Office, 14 February 1900, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on a vacant place on the Meteorlogical Council for a seventh member; resolved not to fill this place. Professor J. J. Thomson's motion on examining the case for changes to the Council's constitution, to be examined by a committee formed for that purpose.
12. Professor J. J. Thomson appointed as the Royal Society's delegate to the approaching jubilee of the Royal Meteorological Society.
13. £60 from the Publication Fund awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham, on the advice of the Sectional Committee for Mathematics.
14. Letter from J. F. F. Horner, H.M. Commissioners of Woods and Forests, 1 Whitehall Place, 30 January 1900, to Lord Rayleigh, on 15 acres of land in the Old Deer Park, Richmond, for the National Physical Laboratory. The site had been approved by the Executive Committee and General Board of the Laboratory and it was resolved to accept it under the terms specified.
15. Resolved to convene a meeting of the Society's representatives on the governing bodies of public schools.
16. Recommendation of the Scientific Relief Fund for grants to applicants.
17. Messrs. Few & Company had recommended more than one Trustee for the Sylvester Fund: the Treasurer to act as a Trustee with Lord Rothschild.
18. £2 2s., from the Donation Fund awarded to Dr. G. J. Stoney for excess in expenditure on grants already awarded, for investigation of the Leonids.
19. An informal reception of Fellows to be held on 29 March 1900.
20. Meeting of the Government Grant Committee on 16 May; the Boards on 2 May.
21. Letter from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, regretting the negative decision on their joining Joint Antarctic Committee.
22. A bronze copy of the medal presented to Sir George Gabriel Stokes by the University of Cambridge donated to the Society.
23. Treasurer authorised to pay the balance of the Winteringham Fund to the Foundling Hospital.
24. Sir Henry Roscoe's enquiry on terms for acquiring a set of Philosophical Transactions for presentation to Eton College; the offer of one-third of published price extended in this case.
25. Resignation of A. L. Roberts from junior staff; F. B. Bull's salary increased.
26. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
27. Bills for books, engravings and other expenses. |