| 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; 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 Dr. Charles Meldrum and Henri de Lacaze-Duthiers.
3. Letter from Arthur Rucker, 19 Gledhow Gardens, 15 July 1901, to Sir William Huggins, full text entered into the minutes: resigning his position as Secretary, following his appointment as Principal of London University.
4. Two memorials, one in favour of limiting the tenure in office of Society Officers, one against, to be taken as first item of business at the next meeting of Council.
5. Nominations of Fellows to serve on next Council, with a list of retiring Council members.
6. Adjudication of Royal Society medals, with proposers and seconders, adjourned to the next meeting.
7. Nominations for the role of junior Secretary: two candidates suggested and the one with the most votes to be approached, the other to be kept in reserve.
8. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a power of attorney to allow the Society's bankers to sell stock to make an advance on the International Catalogue.
9. Dates provisionally fixed for 1902-1902 Council meetings.
10. Draft annual report of Council to the Fellows to be circulated for consideration.
11. Address of condolence, from Sir William Huggins, to H.M. King Edward VII, on the death of his sister, the Dowager Empress Frederick of Germany, full text entered into the minutes.
12. Congratulatory address, Sir William Huggins, to Professor Rudolf Virchow, on the occasion of his 80th birthday, full text entered into the minutes; Lord Lister the bearer of the the address.
13. Address, Sir William Huggins, to the Ambassador of the United States of America, on the attempted assasination of President McKinley, full text entered into the minutes; with a reply from the Ambassador and a telegram of condolence from the Society on the President's subsequent death.
14. Joint meeting of the Royal Society and Royal Astronomical Society on 31 October, to facilitate early publication of the reports on the solar eclipse observations of 1901.
15. Report of the Mackinnon Studentship Committee, awarding a studentship to Mr. J. J. R. Macleod.
16. Letter from the Berlin Academy nominating Dr. Ulrich Behn to the Joule Studentship, to study water and ice calorimetry.
17. £2,000 and £500 received from the Treasury for the Government Grant and Publication Fund.
18. Report of the Meteorological Council tabled and to be submitted to the Treasury.
19. Letter from the Admiralty, cointaining a despatch on a German Expedition to South Polar regions.
20. Copy of resolutions passed at the British Congress on Tuberculosis tabled.
21. Extension of elections to the Fellowships granted to Professors Alcock, Gregory and Martin.
22. Parliamentary copies of the Imperial yard and pound safely returned to the Royal Society.
23. Leave granted for photography of portraits, reprinting of papers and copying of illustrations.
24. Bills for binding, books, engraving and for other expenses. |