| 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: Francis Baily; Peter Barlow; William Thomas Brande; Benjamin Collins Brodie; John George Children; William Clift; Michael Faraday; Reverend Dr. Philip Jennings; Charles Konig; William Hasledine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; the Treasurer, John William Lubbock, in the chair; succeeded by the President, His Royal Highness [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Resolution on the compounding of annual contributions for £40 to those Fellows who have submitted paper. Resolution on dates of 4 December and 11 December for enacting new Statutes to be proposed at the next meeting. Correspondence from J. Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, 6 June and 20 December 1834, to the Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society, and from J. Stewart, Treasury Chambers, 31 October 1834, to the Commissioners of the Excise, full text entered into the minutes: authorising the Society to proceed with research into the best method for constructing tables and recommending methods for gauging spirits, to aid in the collection of revenue and the amending of law, with expenses to be sanctioned. An Excise Committee appointed by Council, with members listed, to consider the correspondence. Letter from Edward Turner, Geological Society, Somerset House, 11 June 1834, to J. G. Children, full text entered into the minutes: on a chimney in the Royal Society's rooms interfering with alterations to the Geological Society's new apartments, Council agreeing to the alteration provide the Board of Works consent. Letter from Mr. Hawkins, requesting a donation of the Philosophical Transactions on behalf of the Athenaeum Club, agreed. Request from Dr. A. P. W. Philip to republish a paper, granted. Letter from C. P. Cooper, Secretary of the Commissioners of Public Records, New Boswell Court, Lincoln's Inn, May 1834, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting information on records, charters or copies, with treatises or other historical writings, in the care of the Society. Letter from Mr. Swainson asking to whom he should apply for information on the Society's proceedings; the reply to be that all books are open to the inspection of Fellows.
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