| Description | Present at the meeting: The President; Dr Harwood; Dr Mead; Mr Waller; Dr Sloane
' Mr Hunt was ordered to bring the Curiosities in the Repository at Gresham College to the House in Crane Court with what convenient speed he could.
Dr Sloane presented the Society with a Busto of King Charles the Second, who was Founder, Patron, and Benefactor to the Society. A Pedestall was ordered to be made for it to be put over the Chimney, and an Inscription to be wrote under it accordingly. Mr Waller undertook to take care of this matter.
The President reported that since last Council Mr Isted had given Fifty pounds, Sir David Hamilton Fiftly pounds, Mr Bussiere twenty one pounds ten shillings, and Dr Mills twenty pounds to the Society.
Mr Hill, Mr Roberts, and Dr Mead were proposed, balloted for, and chosen Auditors of the Accounts, and desired to consider of the Revenue of the Society with the President, Secretaries and Treasurer.
Mr Waller, Mr Pitfield and Dr Harwood, with the assistance of Mr Hunt, were proposed, balloted for, and chosen a Committee to adjust the Workmens Bills, Payment for Bricks brought in for the New Repository, and for the Building a New one.
The Treasurer was desired to pay so much a piece of the Principal Sums of Money owing on the two Bonds of the Society to Mr Hunt, and Interest for the same, so as to bring them to One hundred pounds each. This was balloted for, and so ordered to be done.
A List of the Persons wrote to, to put them in mind of Benefactions, was produced; which are as follows;
Mr Bayley, Mr Bemde, Honourable Mr James Bridges, Mr Jo. Bridges, Mr Burnet, Mr Clavel, Dr Cockburn, Dr Cox, Sir Thomas Crisp, Sir Anthoney Dean, Mr Derham, Dr Douglass, Mr Emmet, Mr Richard Foley, Mr Forster, Mr Frankland, Mr Geekie, Dr Grew, Sir David Hamilton, Dr Halley, Dr Harris, Mr Hammond, Mr Hauksbee, Mr Hodgson, Mr Holt, Mr Hutcheson, Dr Hutton, Mr Jackson, Mr Keill, Mr Knight, Sir Berkley Lucy, Sir George Markham, Dr Mills, Mr Middleton, Mr Benjamin Morland, Mr Sa Morland, Mr Moult, Mr Nelson, Mr Machen, Dr Oliver, Sir Jo. Percival, Honourable Mr Russel Roberts, Dr Robinson, Mr Ralphson, Mr Savery, Dr Shadwell, Mr Sherard, Dr Slare, Dr Stanley, Sir Jo. Stanley, Mr Shibs, Mr Tanner, Dr Thompson, Mr Tooke, Mr Tuffnell, Mr Wanley, Sir Paul Whitchcot, Mr Wooford, Dr Woodward, Mr Worsley, Mr Bussiere, Dr Cyprianus, Mr De Moivre, Dr Sylvestre. ' |