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: Sir John Barrow; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Bryan Donkin; Thomas Galloway; Dr. John Lindley; John William Lubbock; Richard Phillips; Peter Mark Roget; Major Edward Sabine; Dr. Richard Bently Todd; 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. Daniell applied for 100 copies of his second paper on electrolysis from Philosophical Transactions, granted. Mrs. Acton applied for use of the copper plates illustrating Mr. Knight's papers, granted. Two addresses of congratulation to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, on 'Your Majesty's providential escape from the wicked designs of an assassin'; resolved to lay these before the Society that evening. Resolution of the Committee on Physics including Meteorology, on the Royal Society's Meteorological Observations being unworthy and that a meteorological observatory should be established in the vicinity of London; the Society to apply to Government for this purpose, adopted by Council and the President to communicate with Lord Melbourne on the subject. |