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RefNoCMP/1/131
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date30 April 1840
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; Sir John Barrow; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Dr. John Davy; Bryan Donkin; Edward Forster; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Richard Phillips; Peter Mark Roget; Major Edward Sabine; Dr. Richard Bently Todd; the Treasurer, John William Lubbock, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Captain Boileau applied for an extension to admission to the Fellowship, granted. Application from Mr. Lyell, on behalf of the Geological Society, for 250 extra copies of the instructions drawn up by the Committee of Geology, granted, once the report was received by Council and printed. M. Dumas recommended for election as a Foreign Member. Baron Poisson reported as deceased, therefore other candidates for Foreign Membership to be nominated at the next meeting. Major Sabine reported a communication from Professor Bache on a memorial to establish magnetic and meteorological observatories in the United States of America, to co-operate with the British Government observatories; resolved that such observations were of the greatest importance and the President should take steps to make this resolution known to the American Government. Resolved that the Report of the Committee of Physics relating to meteorological observations at Alten in Finmarken should be read to the Royal Society at that evening's meeting. Bills for shelving and bookbinding to be paid. Library Committee authorised to spend £150 on binding. Letter from Sanmel Solly applying for a grant of £50 from the Donation Fund, for research into the blood gland in the swim bladder of fish, referred to the Committee on Zoology and Animal Physiology. Letter from John Barrow, Admiralty, 10 April, to the Marquis of Northampton, full text entered into the minutes: observational reports from the ships Erebus and Terror, with a list of magnetic observations.
Extent3p.; pp.282-284
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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