| 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; John Frederick Daniell; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Francis Kiernan; Charles Wheatstone; the Treasurer, John William Lubbock, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Letter from William Shuckard, Royal Society's Library, 27 June 1839, to the Treasurer, full text entered into the minutes: he has examined the Society's manuscript letters at Lubbock's request with a view to cataloguing them, which Shuckard considers essential and not too time-consuming; Mr. Halliwell has offered to catalogue other manuscripts, and miscellanous printed materials remaining to be done, but these might be disposed of, to fund the purchase of scientific books. Shuckard to have leave during the month of July. Dr. Martin Barry requested permission to take 200 copies of his second series of researches on embryology, granted. James Orchard Halliwell applied to copy manuscripts for a history of the Society, granted. Recommendations and report of the Joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology, for circulation to a list of individuals, in order to solicit co-operation in magnetic observations; with a list of recommended instruments; other recomendations include instruments for the Admiralty, a communication to the East India Company's Directors with an offer of training for officers by Professor Lloyd, that Professor Daniell design a skeleton form for meteorological observations, and availibility of invariable pendulums for India observations. Council propose Royal Medals to be awarded for astronomy and physiology in the year 1842. |