Letter from Norman MacLeod of the Science and Art Department, South Kensington to the Secretary, the Royal Society, Burlington House Regarding applications for the Government Grant from an existing member of the Government Fund Commiittee; Royal Society Council resolved that no proposition or undertaking from such a member would be entertained. Their Lords trust that the resolution has not been come to under any misapprehension of their own views or wishes. They desire it may be clearly understood that they had no wish to impose such a rule as that stated in the Society's letter of 26 January 1877. 29 January 1877