| Description | Present at the Council: The President; Lord Bishop of Sarum; Sir John Lowther; Sir William Petty; Sir Robert Southwell; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Hoskins; Mr Abraham Hill; Mr Henry Oldenburg
Resolved that everyone on the present Council will provide an 'Experimentall Discourse' for the Society at one public meeting in a year, whether by themselves of bty sme other member of the Society or to pay 40 shillings.
Ordered Mr Oldenburg to offer the new legal Obligation for paying 52 shillings a year for the use of the Royal Society to as many members to sign and seal as he can, and to show them the Statute made by the Council to engge every Fellow to pay such a subscription.
Ordered that a Catalogue be made of all the presents made by persons to the Society, together with the donor's names, and that duplicates to be made for and kept by the Keeper of the Repository and the Treasurer.
Ordered a Catalogue be made of all the instruments and apparatus paid for out of their public treasury, and the instruments to be locked and kept together in the repository for instruments.
Ordered that a table and Catalaogue be made of all the books, discourses, letters and accounts brought into the Society, together with the author's names. These are to be kept in presses under lock and key, which are to be in the keeping of the President and Secretaries.
Ordered Mr Aubrey and Mr Collins to assist and to make proposals at the next meeting of the Council what they will expect for their assistance.
Memorandum; Sir William Petty proposed that all the discourses entered into the Society's Register Books should be divided into several sections and chapters, and that this should be considered at the next meeting. |