| Description | Present at the meeting: James Burrow Esq, Vice President in the chair; Mr Baker; Mr Belchier; Mr Collinson; Lord Willoughby; Mr Wegg; Dr Birch and Dr Morton, Secretaries
Professor Bliss, Israel Mauduit and Samuel Mead Esq, John Pringle MD and Mr Benjamin Wilson, elected into the new Council on St Andrew's Day, took the Oath appointed by the Charter
Minutes of meeting of 30 November 1763 read
Ordered;
1. Corbyn Morris to have remaining volumes of Transactions delivered
2. Bills received from Messrs Johnson and unwin, and Mr Sisson, to be paid
Letter from James West Treasurer of 20 January 1763 read concerning means of paying the Society's bills by cashing in £400 worth of Bank Annuities - permission granted
Letter of thanks received from the Trustees of the British Museum for volume of Transactions presented to them by the Council of the Royal Society
Vice President presented the President's apologies for absence because of a cold, but that they were to discuss the election of an Officer to replace Mr Francis Hauksbee lately deceased, who was Clerk and Housekeeper, with brief for the Library and Repository and Porter. Minutes of Council consulted; Society elects office of Clerk, Council of Housekeeper. The President had received several applilcations, read and interviewed in order of receipt by President;
1. Mr James Fergusson of Margaret Street Cavendish Square
2. Mr James Horsfall
3. Mr Robert Waddington, the Society's late Assistant Observer at St Helena
4. Mr Emanuel Mendes da Costa FRS
5. Mr Samuel Dunn, who keeps an Academy at Chelsea, asked to prepare a written application
Agreed to meet again on 27 January
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