| 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; William Carmichael McIntosh; Ludwig Mond; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Arthur Rucker (Secretary); 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. Deaths of John Christian Malet and Professor Henry A. Rowland.
3. No Ladies' soiree to be held, following the death of Queen Victoria.
4. Royal Geographical Society unable to approve the draft instructions for the Antarctic Expedition: suggestion of a small joint committee to reconsider them approved.
5. Treasury to be informed of the arrangement to provide the Director for the National Physical Laboratory with residence at Bushy House, with an abatement in his salary.
6. Selection of candidates for Fellowship of the Royal Society discussed and adjourned.
7. Bill for electric lighting. |