| 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; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Sir John Frederick William Herschel; Francis Kiernan; John William Lubbock; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Reverend Adam Sedgwick; Dr. 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 meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. Kiernan and Mr. Wheatstone to be added to the Dipoma Committee. Mr. Roberton's salary to be raised to £200 per annum. Report of the Meteorological Committee, full text entered into the minutes: on examining the plan of meteorological observations proposed by the Trinity Board, the committee make recommendations on instrumentation to be used by lighthouse staff. Resolutions of the Joint Committee on Physics and Meteorology, on the loan of clocks to the Board of Ordnance for fixed observatories and an application to the East India Company for magnetic observatories, adopted. Letter from the Marquess of Northampton and John William Lubbock, Somerset House, 25 April 1839, to Sir Richard Jenkins, Chairman of the East India Company, full text entered into the minutes: forwarding the resolution of the Royal Society and the British Association and requesting co-operation on magnetic observatories. |