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RefNoCMP/1/102
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date29 November 1838
DescriptionPrinted 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: Dr. John Bostock; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Davies Gilbert; Charles Konig; Spencer Joshua Alwyn Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton; Reverend George Peacock;; William Haseldine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Benjamin Travers; Captain William Henry Smyth; Charles Wheatstone; Reverend William Whewell; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts reported a balance of £1,463 14s. 5d. The Rumford Medal to be awarded to Professor Forbes for his experiments on the polarization of heat. The first two years' dividend on Rumford Medal not being invested in new stock, the additional interest on the sum payable to Professor Forbes estimated at £8, totalling £137 13s.; the balance of £121 13s. 6d remaining to be used to purchase additional stocks. G. W. Featherstonhaugh and Charles J. K. Tynte reported as defaulting on annual contributions. Report of the Committee on Mathematics recommending the award of a Royal Medal to William Henry Fox Talbot for his papers on researches on the integral calculus, approved. Resolved that Copley Medals be awarded to Professor Gauss for his researches into magnetism; and to Michael Faraday for his researches into specific electrical induction. Letter from Michael Faraday requesting leave to reprint his researches into electricity as a single volume and to borrow the plates, granted. Meeeting adjourned until the next day.
Extent2p.; pp.191-192
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/2/306
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