| 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: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury; Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Sydney John Hickson; Sir William Huggins; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Hugh Frank Newall; Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; William Johnson Sollas; Ernest Henry Starling; Sylvanus Phillips Thompson; Augustus Desire Waller; the President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Royal Society for election for the ensuing year.
3. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Professor A.A. Michelson; Royal Medals to Dr. E.W. Hobson and Dr. Ramsay H. Tranquair; the Davy Medal to E.W. Morley; the Buchanan Medal to Mr. W.H. Power; the Hughes Medal to Professor E.H. Griffiths; the Sylvester Medal to Professor W. Wirtinger.
4. Appointment of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts.
5. Reports on the Royal Society's platinum meters were laid before Council: discrepencies were referred to the Deputy Warden of the Standards and the Director of the National Physical Laboratory to collaborate on a further report.
6. Sir W. Matthews nominated to the General Board of the National Physical Laboratory, in the vacancy created by the death of Sir Benjamin Baker.
7. Memorandum from the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory on the increased expenses incured on account to the Eskdalemuir Observatory: forwarded to the Treasury.
8. Professor Church reappointed to represent the Royal Society as a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum.
9. Professor Perry reappointed to the Joint Scholarships Board.
10. Mr. Horace Brown reappointed to the Lawes Agricultural Trust Committee.
11. Application from Professor Gamgee for a grant of £100 referred to the Sectional Committee on Physiology.
12. Report of the Soiree Committee on arrangements for the Anniversary Dinner approved, with consideration on payments for Fellows' guests deferred.
13. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee recommending sums for the benefit of applicants, approved.
14. Annual Report of Council to the Fellowship approved and ordered to be distributed to Fellows, except those parts to be used in the Presidential Address.
15. Treasurer authorised to draw upon £125 from the Reserve Fund of the Government Grant for meeting expenses prompted by Government business requests.
16. Finance Committee to consider the position of the Fee Reduction Fund and report to Council.
17. Leave granted to Mr. Klinkicht to photograph the Royal Society's portrait of Copernicus, to engrave it for publication, and to the Editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica for reproduction of an illustration.
18. List of bills for payment, for an aspirator, for painting and repairs to the House, and for books. |