| Description | Present at the Council at Gresham College: Sir Joseph Williamson, the President; Mr Henshaw; Sir William Petty; Mr Colwall; Dr Holder; Mr Hill; Dr Gale; Dr Greene; Mr Robert Hooke
The Treasurer to pay rent Mr Pope for the use of his lodgings
Ordered that Mr Hunt prepare a silver box for Mr Lewenhooks diploma.
Dr Gale asked to get a table written in a fair hand to be hung up in the Gallery where the Library is planned, with the inscription he produced acknowledging the bounty of the Duke of Norfolk in bestowing the Norfolk Library on the Society.
Moved that the Duke of Norfolk to be solicited that he would please bestow his picture to be preserved in the Library.
Mr Colwall asked by the Council to bestow his picture to the Society to be kept in the Repository, which he ' with much modest reluctancy' promised to do.
Ordered that provision to be made for all the manuscripts of the Norfolkian Library
A proposal was made for procuring subscriptions to encourage a catalogue of the natural and artificial curiosities of the Society to be printed, and it was suggested the proposal should be brought in the following Thursday for subscriptions.
The printing of the new Diurnal in half a sheet of paper was debated.
To meet on this matter on Saturday morning at 10 in the morning.
Mr Bates bill for the partition in the Gallery was passed. |