| 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: Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; John Rose Bradford (Foreign Secretary); Sir William Crookes; Francis Darwin; Sir George Darwin; James Cossar Ewart; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); Charles Thomas Heycock; Sydney John Hickson; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Charles Algernon Parsons; Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; Frederick Thomas Trouton; Augustus Desire Waller; William Whitaker; 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. Death of Lord Blythswood.
3. The Observatories Committee suggested that a letter of condolence should be sent to Lady Eliot, the widow of Sir John Eliot.
4. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a power of attorney allowing the Society's bankers to sell consolidated stock.
5. Motion from Professor Larmor, that in future, silver copies should be presented with the Society's gold medals.
6. A grant of £7 awarded from the Reserve Fund of the Government Grant to Mr. N.P. Campbell of Oxford, for apparatus used in sea water density research to be undertaken during his vorage to Ceylon.
7. Council to consider nominating a replacement for Sir John Evans as representative to the Lawes Agricultural Trust at their next meeting.
8. Mr. R.D. Lawrie to be re-nominated to the Royal Society's table at the Plymouth Marine Biological Laboratory.
9. List of proposals for the award of Royal Society Medals, with proposers and seconders.
10. The President informed Council of his discussion with one of the principal trustees of the British Museum's Natural History Department and it was the intention to appoint a Director of the Department: Professor Hickson's motion in support of the letter by Professor of Zoology on the administration of the British Museum (Natural History) withdrawn, after discussion.
11. Amendment to the grounds for election of candidates under Statue XIII chapter 1.
12. Letter from Lady Evans, in thanks for the resolution passed at last Council.
13. Letter from the Scholarships Committe of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, regretting that they would be unable to take up the cases of two exceptional candidates for the Mackinnon Studentships.
14. Communication from the Meteorological Office noting the postponement of a meeting of Imperial and Colonial Meteorologists.
15. Extension of time for admission to the Fellowship granted to Mr. E. Nevill.
16. List of meetings to be held by the Royal Society in the forcoming year, with omissions.
17. Letter from the British Science Guild sttsing that it would not proceed with efforts to reduce the rate of postage on learned societies' publications.
18. Officers empowered to act on behalf of Council during summer recess.
19. Treasurer authorised to pay bills during recess.
20. All books belonging ot the Royal Society to be returned to the Library by 31 July and the Libray closed for cleaning during August.
21. Leave of absence granted to the Assistant Secretary.
22. Leave granted to reporduce a paper by Mr. E. Gold in the Smithsonian's Miscellaneous Collections.
23. Leave granted to the Editor of Nature to copy a map from Professor Love's paper.
24. List of bills for payment for printing, paper and engraving. |