| 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: Francis Baily; William Thomas Brande; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederic Daniell; William Henry Fitton; William Lawrence; William Haseldine Pepys; Reverend Baden Powell; Peter Mark Roget; Charles Wheatstone; Reverend Robert Willis; the Treasurer, Sir John William Lubbock, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Mr. Lawrence made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Dr. Fitton presented a report of the Committee on the Donation Fund, full text entered into the minutes: including on the establishment of the fund by William Hyde Wollaston and its subsequent history, with the first award of dividends in 1833 in aid of the Arctic Expedition; with a full financial account of donations, awards and dividends in the period 1828-1842, with recommendations on the award of funds in the future; Council resolved that the Scientific Committees should be invited to recommend how funds might be applied. Letter from Charles Few, Covent Garden, 12 April 1842, to Sir John William Lubbock, full text entered into the minutes: on the Sir Clifford Wintringham bequest and the parties consenting to the terms set out by Few some time ago. Dr. Fitton withdrew the intended motion noted at the last meeting. Mr. Barlow applied to have 50 impressions taken of two plates of magnetic curves from his 1833 paper, granted. Mr. Shuckard contemplated applying for the post of Linnean Society Librarian and asked if Council had objections, Council did not object to him holding both posts at the same time. Edward Sabine requested to have returns on magnetic observations at his Woolwich office for a few days, granted. |