Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Lionel Smith Beale; Commander Frederick John Owen Evans; Edward Frankland; John Hall Gladstone; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Lassell; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; William Sharpey; Colonel William James Smythe; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Thomas Thomson; William Tite; Sir William Page Wood; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Report of the Government Grant Committee in the form of minutes of a meeting of 20 March 1867, full text entered into the minutes: list of applications for grants, considered and a provisonal list of successful applicants drawn up; the report accepted by Council and the committee's recommendations endorsed. A suggestion from Mr. Stenhouse that members of the public be admitted to Ordinary Meetings of the Royal Society was considered but no alteration to the Statute on Strangers was made. Application from Dr. Carpenter for a grant of £40 from the Donation Fund for preparing specimens of Eozoon and producing copies of a photograph of the fossil by Sir W. Logan, granted. Application from the Civil Service Commissioners for use of rooms in Burlington House for examinations, granted, since the application from the University of London had already been given, but with the exception of the Lower Library on 12 and 13 April, required for President's soiree preparations. Letter from Mr. Glaisher requesting permission to use the Royal Society's rooms for the ordinary meetings and soiree of the Microscopical Society, declined. Request from Mr. Scott for permission to use the Royal Society's crest on the seal to be prepared for the Meteorological Office, declined. Letter from Edward Davis offering to present a plaster bust of himself by Thomas Hood, accepted with thanks. Proceedings granted to M. Alglave in exchange for the Revue des Cours Scientifiques. Mr. Tite presented a warrant signed by Lord Brouncker, accepted with thanks. The Foreign Secretary notified Council of the death of Alexander Dallas Bache, Foreign Member. |