| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Davies Gilbert; Charles Konig; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Benjamin Travers; Charles Wheatstone; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Letter from the Augustus Frederick, the Duke of Sussex, Thorpeham, Bedale, 7 November 1838, to Peter Mark Roget, full text entered into the minutes: Sussex has received the resolution of Council and although he deplores having to resign the Presidency, he considers the separation to be temporary and thanks Council members for their goodwill. Letter from Richard Sheepshanks asking to borrow the Society's Fraunhofer apparatus, granted. List of bills for printing and engraving expenses, ordered to be paid. Report from the Committee on Chemistry on a paper by Professor Graham read and adopted: resolved that one of the year's Royal Medals to be awarded to Thomas Graham for the paper on the constitution of salts of oxalates, nitrates, phosphates, sulphates and chlorides. Appointment of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Read letters from William Ainsworth and Colonel Chesney respecting a paper on the line of levels carried out in the Mediterranean, referred to the gentleman who reported on the paper. The Committee of Physiology to be summoned to consider papers referred to them by the Committee of Papers. |