| 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; Daniel John Cunningham; James Dewar; Michael Foster (Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Victor Horsley; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Sir Andrew Noble; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); William James Russell; Arthur Schuster; Dukinfield Henry Scott; George Johnstone Stoney; Joseph John Thomson; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Deaths of Rev. William Colenso, Rev. Thomas Hicks, and Professor Henry Alleyne Nicholson.
3. Ageement that future obituary notices should be printed in the Yearbook, not the Proceedings.
4. Sir Norman Lockyer to fill the place of Bartholomew Price as a Visitor to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich.
5. Senior Secretary noted an application to the Government Grant Committee by Dr. Monckton Copeland for research on 'variola and vaccinia'; the Local Government Board should be liable for such expenses.
6. Standing order on papers under consideration by Sectional Committees, concerning papers authored by their Chairmen.
7. Letter from Thomas Edward Thorpe offering on behalf of a committee of Fellows, a portrait of Lord Kelvin by William Orchardson, accepted with thanks.
8. The Admiralty Hydrographer queried the need for Dr. Fowler's study; a small committee considered the matter and reported that the subject was urgent and important. The Hydrographer to be consulted again.
9. Report of the Government Grant Review Committee: on the accounts of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, the allocation of specimens by Dr. D. Grant, and on the general disposal of specimens in response to Professor S. Hickson's letter.
10. Report of the Committee on the Constitution of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee: on the revision of current arrangements between the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society, full text printed in the minutes and to be communicated by letter to the Astronomical Society.
11. Sectional Committee on Physics recommends a Joule Studentship to be awarded to Mr. H. T. Barnes of McGill College, Montreal.
12. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee on an allocation of £100, placed with Sir Robert Ball, for the benefit of an applicant.
13. Major P. A. MacMahon to be elected a Fellow of Winchester College.
14. Letter from the Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge University, inviting the Society to propose delegates to Sir George Stokes' fifty year tenure as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. President and Council to represent the Society.
15. Secretaries to prepare an address for the centenary of the death of Lazzarro Spallanzani.
16. Grant of £150 from the Donation Fund to support the International Catalogue Committee; grant of £25 for the Tsetse Fly Committee.
17. Mr. G. Griffith to be retained as Revising Editor for the subject-index to the Catalogue of Scientific Papers, with an honorarium.
18. Treasurer's report on allocations from the Government Publication Grant Fund: grant of £146 for publication of four papers in Philosophical Transactions, by C.T.R. Wilson, D.H. Scott, Professor O. Masson and S.W.J. Smith.
19. Informal reception of Fellows to be held on 16 March and a soiree for gentlemen on 3 May.
20. Government Grant Boards to be held on 26 April.
21. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to letters of request for payments on stock dividends.
22. Sectional Committee on Physics and Chemistry to recommend a paper for the Bakerian Lecture.
23. Letter from the Secretary of the Chemical Society on the state of Sir Humphry Davy's grave; the reply to be that the Royal Institution and Royal Society had alredy taken steps in the matter.
24. Extension of time for admisison to the Fellowship granted to Lord Curzon.
25. Leave granted for reprints of papers and for copying of illustrations.
26. Bills for lithography and engraving. |