| Description | Relates to the donation of £30 which is annually paid to Mr David Carrington out of the general funds. The Treasurer believes that it could be paid out of the Scientific Relief Fund.
Mr David Carrington, who is of unsound mind and is in a private asylum from which the Royal Society receives regular certificates of him being alive, is the brother of the late Mr R C Carrington, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an astronomer of some distinction, who left a legacy to the Society of £2000 in 1875. |