| RefNo | CMP/2/69 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society |
| Date | 10 April 1851 |
| 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; John Joseph Bennett; William Bowman; Sir Benjamin Brodie; Reverend Professor James Challis Samuel Hunter Christie; Lieutenant General Sir Howard Douglas; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; Dr John Forbes; Marshall Hall; Gideon Mantell; Dr William Allen Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Richard Phillips; Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock; William Henry Smyth; Edward Solly; Lieutenant Colonel Edward Sabine, Vice President and Treasurer, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: list of candidates for election as Fellows in 1851 selected by ballot for recommendation to the Society. Candidates listed as follows:
Charles Cardale Babington
Thomas Snow Beck
Charles James Fox Bunbury
George Thomas Doo
Edward Backhouse Eastwick
Captain Charles Morgan Elliot
Captain Robert Fitzroy
John Russell Hind
Augustus William Hofmann
Thomas Henry Huxley
William Edmond Logan
James Paget
George Gabriel Stokes
William Thomson
Augustus Volney Waller
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| Extent | 1p; p.185 |
| Format | Printed |
| PhysicalDescription | On paper, bound |
| AccessStatus | Open |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5580 | Babington; Charles Cardale (1808 - 1895) | 1808 - 1895 |
| NA7647 | Beck; Thomas Snow (1814 - 1877) | 1814 - 1877 |
| NA1532 | Bunbury; Sir; Charles James Fox (1809 - 1886) | 1809 - 1886 |
| NA5604 | Doo; George Thomas (1800 - 1886) | 1800 - 1886 |
| NA7662 | Eastwick; Edward Backhouse (1814 - 1883) | 1814 - 1883 |
| NA2915 | Elliot; Charles Morgan (1815 - 1852); army officer and engineer | 1815 - 1852 |
| NA6774 | FitzRoy; Robert (1805 - 1865); hydrographer and meteorologist | 1805 - 1865 |
| NA7673 | Hind; John Russell (1823 - 1895); astronomer | 1823 - 1895 |
| NA1801 | Hofmann; August Wilhelm von (1818 - 1892) | 1818 - 1892 |
| NA8243 | Huxley; Thomas Henry (1825 - 1895) | 1825 - 1895 |
| NA3840 | Logan; Sir; William Edmond (1798 - 1875) | 1798 - 1875 |
| NA6051 | Paget; Sir; James (1814 - 1899) | 1814 - 1899 |
| NA8283 | Stokes; Sir; George Gabriel (1819 - 1903); First Baronet; physicist | 1819 - 1903 |
| NA8289 | Thomson; William (1824 - 1907); Baron Kelvin of Largs; mathematician and physicist | 1824 - 1907 |
| NA5239 | Waller; Augustus Volney (1816 - 1870) | 1816 - 1870 |