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: Robert Bellamy Clifton; George Howard Darwin; William Turner Thiselton Dyer; David Ferrier; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Arthur Gamgee; Archibald Geikie; Joseph Henry Gilbert; John Hopkinson; Joseph Norman Lockyer; Sir Lyon Playfair; Bartholomew Price; Charles Pritchard; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir George Henry Richards; Arthur Schuster; Philip Lutley Sclater; The Treasurer [John Evans]; Alexander William Williamson; the President, George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Declaration in lieu of the oath by new members of Council and appointment of Vice-Presidents. Purchase of stock on behalf of the Society and the Gassiot Trust. Professor Flower re-elected a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. Letter from the India Office requesting that the Society take charge of Colonel Herschel's papers on pendulum observations, accepted. Letter of thanks from the Pro-Rector of Heidelberg University. Letter of Dr. Dreyer on surplus copies of the Second Armagh catalogue of stars. Letter from E. B. Knobel on the publication of the comparison of Hansen's Tables with Greenwich Lunar Observations, funded from the Government Grant. List of ex-officio members of the Government Grant Committee. List of Fellows of the Royal Society appointed to the Government Grant Committee, sub-committees deferred. Re-appointment lists for the Library Committee, Soiree and House Committee, Challenger Committee, Mountain Observatory Committee, Krakatoa Committee, Delta Committee, Pendulum Committee, Eclipse Committee, Electric Lighting Committee and Indian Observatories Committee. A further letter from Admiral Mouchez on a proposed Paris conference of astronomers, the Astronomers Royal of England, Ireland and Scotland being proposed to attend. Report of the Publications Committee discussed and adjourned. Leave granted for Mr. Chambers to have 300 copies of his paper and to Drs. J. and E. Hopkinson up to 50 copies of theirs. Payment of bills. |