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RefNoCMP/1/104
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date13 December 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: Francis Baily; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Sir John Frederick William Herschel; Francis Kiernan; John William Lubbock; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Robert Bently Todd; Charles Wheatstone; the President, Spencer Joshua Alwyn Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meetings were read and confirmed. President and new Members of Council made and subscribed the declaration in lieu of the oath. Re-appointment of committees with terms of reference and membership: Donation Fund Committee; Library Committee; Catalogue Committee; permanent Committees on Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Astronomy, Meteorology, Geology and Mineralogy, Botany and Vegetable Physiology, and Zoology and Animal Physiology. Each permanent committee to have a quorum of three members, to be summoned as early as convenient to choose chairmen and secretaries, to report progress annually, and to appear in the printed list of Members. Resolution to refer to the Committee of Physics the question of making observations by establishing magnetic observatories and on sending an expedition to the vicinity of the South Pole. Re-appointment of the committee to consider the engraving of a new plate for the Society's diplomas. Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, 1 December 1838, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: requesting £315 compensation for work undertaken on the Library Catalogue and an investigation into the claim. With a responding letter, the Marquess of Northampton, Castle Ashby, 6 December 1838, to Anthony Panizzi, full text entered into the minutes: noting that Northampton is not master of the details of the claim, but promising to write to Mr. Lubbock to lay the matter before Council. Resolved that a letter to be sent to Panizzi requesting that he set out the details of his claim and that the numbers of slips in different classes to be sent to him. Nomination of Vice-Presidents by the President.
Extent4p.; pp.193-196
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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