| Description | Present at the Council: The President, Lord Brouncker; Sir John Banks; Mr Thomas Henshaw; Mr Samuel Pepys; Mr Hoskins; Dr Jonathan Goddard; Mr Daniel Colwall; Mr Abraham Hill; Mr Henry Oldenburg
Sir John Banks made a full report concerning the fee farm rents payable from Lewes in Sussex; Council accepted the proposition, and resolved to dispose the £400 legacy of the late Bishop of Chester for purchasing them, and accordingly asked Mr Hoskins to take care of a legal conveyance of them to the Royal Society and their successors.
It was reported that 60 Fellows had signed and sealed the new Obligation, which was the number required before the printed Declaration should be sent. Resolved that the letter should be drawn up by the Secretary for the next Council, to accompany the several copies of the Declaration to be sent to all who are not excepted by it. The substance of the letter to be to request the Fellows to consider the contents of that Declaration and reply within such time as is limited by the President, who is to sign both the letter and the Declaration.
It was considered that the 40 shillings to be paid by those of the Council who fail to give a lecture would not be considered a sufficient recompense to the one who lectured in his place, and it was agreed that 40 shillings should be added by the Society.
Mr Oldenburg reported that as the Earl of Ailsbury had been obliged to go out of town and could not give his lecture on the 11 February, he had sent in his 40 shillings, which were delivered to Mr Colwall.
Ordered that a discourse made before the Royal Society on 10 December 1674 by Dr Nehemiah Grew concerning the nature, causes and power of mixture, be printed by the printer of the Royal Society. |