| Description | Present at the Council; The President, Lord Brouncker; Lord Brereton; Sir Robert Moray; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Henshaw; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Henry Oldenburg
The President presented a proposal from the Commissioners of the Navy Office, that the Royal Society would undertake the weighing of the wrecks in the Thames at Wollidge [Woolwich]. After debate it was resolved that the President should answer that the Society being destitute of the necessaries for undertaking such a work, they were ready to give their assistance to his Majesty;s officers and to depute certain persons from the Society to take care of the performance, referring themselves to his Majesty's gratification upon the effecting thereof.
The President reported that the Committee appointed on 10 June to consider the way to carry on the Society's business had agreed upon a letter to be sent once more for soliciting arrears, and that such a letter was drawn up, and ready to be presented to the Council. The letter was read, some amendments made, and ordered that several copies should be made, directed first to such Fellows as are in and about London, and their delivery recommended to their proposers. Wording of letter recorded.
[Note in margin: the notes of the transaction in the Council meeting June 10th were, by a mistake, postponed to these of June 24]
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