| 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; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Arthur Rucker (Secretary); Robert Henry Scott; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Mr. F. McClean and Sir John Murray having been nominated, were unable to serve on Council; Sir John E. Gorst and Professor Herbert Hall Turner recommended for election in their place.
3. Letter from a Fellow on the appeal by Clements R. Markham for National Antarctic Expedition funds; expressions within the appeal seem to accuse the Royal Society of culpable conduct in sharing responsibilty for sending a single ship; with a letter from Markham repudiating the suggestion. The Secretaries to reply to the Fellow.
4. Letter from Clements Markham to the President on sending out an Antarctic Expedition relief ship, asking that details be left to the Royal Geographical Society, approved.
5. Delegates to be sent to the Academie des Sciences presentation of a medal to Professor M. Bertholet celebrating fifty years of study; with a congratulatory address, full text entered into the minutes.
6. Letter from the Keeper of the Privy Purse, giving the King's approval on the award of Royal Medals.
7. J. H. Gladstone to be re-appointed to the Joint Scholarships Board.
8. Letter from Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall requesting that the balance of a Government Grant award of about £21 be used in his studies of blood; approved, pending the consent of the Chairman of Board G.
9. Soiree Committee report on arrangements for the Anniversary Dinner and proposing a summer dinner next year, as 'a period of special interest'; consideration of the latter deferred until nect Council.
10. Resolution of the Sectional Committee on Physics and Chemistry on questions put to referees; no action to be taken, pending responses to the Treasurer's letter to Sectional Committees.
11. A clause on election of Officers added to the Council report, approved.
12. Letters of thanks from medallists tabled.
13. Leave granted to R. S. Ball to reprint Krakatoa illustrations; and general permissions for copying of portraits and illustrations.
14. Bills for engraving and for a Hammond typewriter. |