| Description | Present at the meeting; The President; Sir Hans Sloane; Mr Balle; Mr Pound; Mr Jones; Edmund Halley; Mr Burnet; Mr Pound
' Mr Holling of Hannover was ballotted for and approved as a proper Candidate.
Ordered that no person be proposed to the Councill as Candidate unless he have been first proposed regularly in the Society according to the Second Statute relating to Elections of Fellows.
The President Signed an Order for half a Years Salary due to Mr Alban Thomas on June the seventh last past.
Ordered that Mr Thomas be paid Six guineas in Consideration of the Pains he has taken in Cataloguing Mr Aston's Books and making out a Copy of the Same for his Executors Use.
Sir Hans Sloane, Mr Keck, Mr Bridges, Mr Jones, Mr Sherlock, Edmund Halley and Dr Taylor or any three of them are appointed to be a Committee to consider of an Order what is proper to be done to the Pictures to the Library And for the Preservation and beautifying the House. ' |