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: William Wivesley Abney; William Grylls Adams; John Gilbert Baker; Thomas Lauder Brunton; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Warren De La Rue; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Francis Galton; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Sir William Withey Gull; Hugo Muller; Joseph Prestwich; Osborne Reynolds; Osbert Salvin; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the Treasurer [Sir John Evans] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: the proposed candidates for election of President, Officers and Council to be recommended to Fellows at the forthcoming Anniversary Meeting and the appointment of auditors. The award of medals is adjudicated: Copley Medal to Professor Carl Ludwig; Rumford Medal to Professor Tobias Robertus Thalen; Royal Medals to Professor George Howard Darwin and Professor Daniel Oliver; Davy Medal to Professor Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe. The meeting concludes with a list of salaries and wages paid to officers and staff. |