| 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Vernon Boys; Horace Tabberer Brown; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; Arnold William Reinold; Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Professors B. Brauner and G. Lunge to be invited to the Fellows' 'at home'.
3. Deaths of Dr. George Mercer Dawson and Professor George Francis Fitzgerald.
4. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a power of attorney for sale of stock to advance support for the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
5. Letter from the Treasury approving contracts for printing and publishing the International Catalogue.
6. Letter from the Treasury asking the Royal Society to consider the removal of the magnetic observatory from the Old Deer Park, Richmond, as the best method of solving problems caused by electric railways and trams: President and Council to signal willingness, so long as suitable funds for the move were made available.
7. List of appointments to the Association of the Meteorological Council.
8. Report of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers with recommendations for proceeding with 1884-1900, including indexing, the appointment of a Director, printing and costs: approved, with the appointment of Professor McLeod as Director.
9. List of candidates for Foreign Membership from the Suggestion Book circulated to Council.
10. Professor J. Dewar to be invited to deliver the Bakerian Lecure on the constituents of the atmosphere.
11. Letter from Few & Company on an application from the Executors of Sir William Mackinnon for a £50 expenditure, approved.
12. Application for assistance from Professor T. McKenny Hughes for assistance in an expedition to examine the deposits at Pikermi [Greece]: declined, since the British Museum was sending an expedition.
13. £38 from the Donation Fund awarded to Professor E. Ray Lankester to prepare plates for a paper on Aeurolopus for the Transactions of the Linnean Society.
14. Lord Kelvin and Prfofessor Armstrong unable to attend the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies, additional delegates to be co-opted.
15. Clause in the will of Mr. Godman, full text entered into the minutes, making provision for the completion of Biologia Centrali Americana.
16. President unable to attend the funeral of Queen Victoria, therefore invited by the Earl Marshall to represent the Society for the ceremony at St. George's Chapel.
17. Letter from the Royal Society to the Secretaries of the Royal Geographical Society, full text entered into the minutes: approving the instructions for the conduct of the Antarctic Expedition drawn up by the Joint Committee.
18. Sir Archibald Geikie and Dr. A. Buchan re-appointed to the Government Grant Committee.
19. Letter from Ernst Haeckel giving thanks for the Darwin Medal.
20. Leave granted to Dr. C. Davidson to reprint a paper.
21. Bills for electric lighting, printing, engraving and other expenses. |