| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Dr Bradley; Mr Burrow; Lord Charles Cavendish; Mr Collinson; Mr Davall; Mr Fauquier; Dr Heberden; Mr Mead; Dr Nesbitt; Mr Sotheby; Mr Warner; Mr White; Lord Willoughby; Mr West; Dr Birch and Dr Morton, Secretaries
Minutes of last meeting read
Mr Smith attended to confirm his brother Captain Smith at Spithead to receive the Society's observers on His Majesty's ship the Sea Horsem and that £100 woudl be needed from each observer for their share of livestock and stores for the voyage. Resolved Mr Mead and Mr White to contact Lord Anson, First Lord of the Admiralty, regarding the stores.
Mr Ellicott attended to inform ' that the Clock was now ready at a day's warning and also the man to attend it to Portsmouth, where Mr Mason might put it together for his own Instruction in the presence of the Person Sent. The man to be allowed half a guinea a day and his expences' to which Council agreeed.
Mr Mason attended to inform ' that he had Caused all the rest of the Instruments for the observations at Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia] to be carefully pacht up, and lodged in a hired Room at the White Hart in the Burrough ready for the Portsmouth Carrier: He added, that he would be at Portsmouth in Person, on Thursday the Twentieth Instant without fail. ' Ordered he be ' paid four pounds and six pence by Mr Davall VP for a pair of Globes, and Sundry Small Expences; and that the Bills for Packing etc be Sent in to the Council. '
Resolved Mr Davall to apply to Christopher Burrow, one of the Directors of the East India Company for Bills of Credit for £100 to each of the two observers for Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]
Mr Commissioner Mead informed the Council he ' would write to Mr (William) Cowley Collector of the Customs at Portsmouth, to put the Society's instruments without Delay, Safe on Board the Sea-Horse '
The Society's seal affixed to the Society's 'Address to the King', which was signed by the President near the seal and by all Members of the Council present on the back of the address
Golden medal of Sir Godfrey Copley removed from the Society's chest prior to adjudication. |