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: Thomas Bell; Reverend James Booth; Charles Brooke; Thomas Graham; William Hopkins; Henry Bence Jones; George Newport; Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ellison Portlock; Colonel Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; John Wrottesley, 2nd BaronWrottesley; the President,William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. Bell presented correspondence in connection with the Southern Telescope Committee and reported on resolutions made at the last meeting of 5 July: approving the proposition made by Mr. Grubb, in Dr. Robinson's letter, and noting that application should be made to the Government for funds, by a deputation, and that a sub-committee should superintend Mr. Grubb's progress. Letter from Thomas Romney Robinson, Dublin, 30 June 1853, to Edward Sabine, full text entered into the minutes: on Mr. Grubb's suitability in the construction of a 4-foot reflecting telescope assisted by Lord Rosse's advice, and describing the proposed instrument and its costs; he urges that Grubb's offer is made the basis for the application to Government for funding; while construction is in progress, the enquiries suggested by Mr. Airy and others on photography and elevation of site might be answered; once completed the instrument could be fully trialled by a committee. Resolved that a printed copy of the new regulations on the adjudication of Royal Society Medals, approved by H.M. the Queen, should be sent to Members of Council. Mr. Newport gave notice that he would move that no author to whom the Copley or Rumford Medals had been awarded would be considered eligible for further awards on the same branch of science. Request from Mr. Toynbee, for permission to copy his paper on the muscles of the eustachian tube, granted. |