| Description | Present at the Council: The President; Mr Bemde; Mr Hill; Mr Waller; Dr Mead; Mr Derham; Dr Harris; Dr Cockburn; Mr Roberts; Sir John Percival; Mr Pitfield; Mr Moreland; Dr Woodward; Dr Sloane; Mr Clavell
Dr Woodward proposed Mr Wolfius to be a member of the Society
The Treasurer was ordered to pay twenty pounds for 100 Copiesof Mr Ray's history of Insects, which were agreed to be taken of Mr Churchill the Bookseller at four shilings a piece.
Mr Roberts, Mr Hill, and Mr Bemde were nominated, ballotted for, and chosen Auditors of the Accounts of the Society.
The President named this day se'nnight at eleven o clock to audit the Accounts.
Mr Wolfius was proposed by Dr Woodward, ballotted, for, and approved to be proposed a Member of the Society.
Mr Thorpe was ordered to be paid twenty pounds for half a years Salary for waiting on the Society etc. and in full for all accounts due at Christmas last.
The President proposed that the Original Letters and Papers of the Society sent to them should be pasted into a Book with guards, which was approved of; and Mr Hunt was ordered to prepare a Book accordingly, and to take care to past them into it from time to time, and that those Papers found by Mr Waller amongst Dr Hooks Papers should be put into it.
Mr Waller was earnestly desired to proceeding in Publishing the Posthumous Works of Dr Hook. |