| 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: Frederick Augustus Abel; William Bowman; Major-General Henry Clerk; William Crookes; John Evans (Treasurer); Augustus George Vernon Harcourt; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Henry Huxley; James Lindsay, Lord Lindsay; Sir John Lubbock; John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh; Charles William Siemens; John Simon; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the President, William Spottiswoode, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Death of the Reverend Philip Kelland. Treasurer reported that after enquiry with Messrs. Smith and Oakley, he was not recommending any reduction in Mablethorpe rents. Report of the Estates Committee, the sale of land authorised to the London and South Western Railway Company at £600 per acre, stipulating the construction of a footbridge in lieu of a level crossing. Repeal of Statute XIX Chapter 1 to be proposed at a later meeting, with the full text of a new draft on the election procedure for Foreign Members entered into the minutes. Herbert Rix appointed as Clerk to the Royal Society, subject to conditions. Applications from Mrs. Clifford for permission to reprint papers of her late husband, and from W.P Sladen for the return of ilustrations acceded to. Letter from R.H. Scott, on the importance of continuing observations at Trevandrum referred to the Meteorological Council. Application from the Association Internationale Litteraire for the use of the Society's rooms refused. The paper by Professor W.K. Parker 'On the structure and development of the skull in the Lacertilia...' to be the Croonian Lecture. Mr. Henry White instructed to prepare the Royal Society's Library Catalogue for publication witout delay, suspending his work on the Catalogue of Scientific Papers. List of bills for payment, for lithography and engraving. |