| Description | Present at Council; Lord Brouncker, Mr Howard, Sir Robert Moray, Sir Paul Neile, Sir Peter Wyche, Mr Aerskine, Dr Goddard, Mr Balle, Mr Palmer, Mr Colwall, Mr Abraham Hill, Mr Henry Oldenburg
Ordered that the President, Sir Robert Moray and Sir Paul Neile have authority to treat with Mr Sutclif concerning his pretensions to the house of Chelsea College, and to offer him one hundred pounds to quit his pretensions; also to treat with Mr Cole, concerning the land belonging to the College
Ordered that the President keep the list of subscriptions made for Dr Charleton by several persons of the Society for contributing to a recompense for the care and pains which the Doctor was willing to take in Anatomical administration.
Ordered that the Society appoint Dr Charleton to have the care of Dissecting Bodies for one year
Ordered that the Society write to Mr Hevelius and ask him that the Catalogue of the Fixed Stars of Ulug-Beig being sent him for his private satisfaction, he would not, by printing the Catalogue, anticipate the Society's purpose of printing the whole book. |