| Description | Present at the Council:
Mr Henshaw Vice President; Sir John Hoskins; Mr Aerskine; Sir Jonas Moore; Mr Colwall; Mr Hill; Dr Croone
In the absence of the President Mr Henshaw ordered Mr Hunt to summon a meeting of the Council on this day.
Read the case of Mr Oldenburg's children and Sir Richard Lloyds opinion thereon. Ordered that Michael Wicks and Henry Hunt be named Commisioners on behalf of the Royal Society, that Mr Hunt give notice hereof to Mr Boyle, and that the persons in possession of the house be asked to keep possession unless demanded with Mr Boyles consent.
Ordered that any letters directed to the Secretary which concern the Society they shall be read at the next meeting of the Society after their receipt.
All papers and books concerning the Society be kept in the repository or Library, and if anything needs to be transcribed it can be done there.
The officiating Secretary to take short notes of all that passes at the Society or Council, and before rising to read the notes to see if they are correct.
The notes so taken to be fairly entered by the next meeting day.
The Statute for taking votes by ballot proposed at the last meeting was passed.
The Council adjourned until next Thursday at 3. |