| 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: William Thomas Brande; Samuel Hunter Christie; William Henry Fitton; Peter Mark Roget; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sykes; the Treasurer, Sir John William Lubbock, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A manuscript volume of tidal observations at Liverpool in 1834 by Captain Henry Mangles Denham was presented. Mr. E. W. Bayley applied for the loan of a meteorite from Buenos Aires to exhibit at his London Institution lectures, granted. Captain William Allen given an extension to admission to the Fellowship, being on service in the expedition to the coast of Africa. List of bills to be paid for alterations to the Library and other expenses. Resolved that the Catalogue of Miscellaneous Literature be sold at 2s. 6d. A set of Greenwich Observations granted to L. H. Holland. The President to apply to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs to reclaim advanced sums for the purchase of magnetic instruments for the Pacha of Egypt. Dr. Fitton reported on behalf of the Committee of Geology that no person was suitable to recommend for a Royal Medal. Edward Sabine reported for the Committe on Physics that Eaton Hodgkinson's paper on the strength of cast iron pillars was recommended for a Royal Medal, confirmed by Council. The draft of an address from Council to the Society was approved and ordered to be read at the Anniversary Meeting. |