| 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: Dr. Richard Bright; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederic Daniell; Dr. Gideon Algernon Mantell; Peter Mark Roget; Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sykes; 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. Letters from J. G. Graham, Whitehall 18 June 1842, and from G. E. Anson, Windsor Castle, 11 June, to the Marquess of Northampton, full text entered into the minutes: acknowledging addresses to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert respectively. Letter from James C. Melvill, East India House, 25 June 1842, to the Marquess of Northampton, full text entered into the minutes: magnetic observations under their superintendence to continue, Council resolved that thanks to be conveyed. Letter from Mr. Hudson 12 Hanover Square, 11 June 1842, to Mr. Roberton, full text entered into the minutes: he has no recollection of an eyepiece to Newton's telescope, only a black button screw in that position; he refers to Newton's paper in Early Letters N. Resolved that the magnetical observations from the East India Company be transmitted to Humphrey Lloyd. A committee to be formed to draw up conditions for the £100 award for a microscope, members listed. Charles Few attended and the seal was affixed to a power enabling the Treasurer to receive interest on Consols from Sir Clifton Winteringham's legacy. Resolved that Professor Forbes's paper on transparency of the atmosphere becomes the Bakerian Lecture. Letter from Sidney Herbert, Admiralty, 13 July 1842, to Peter Mark Roget, full text entered into the minutes: fowarding cases and casks containing natural history specimens from the Antarctic Expedition; resolved that these be passed to the British Museum, under the former conditions. The bill from Macdonald and Leslie for a pedestal for the bust of Mary Somerville to be paid. Thomas Glanville Taylor being in India and unable to attend for admission to the Fellowshp requested to be added to the list of Fellows, agreed. Resolved that volumes of Proceedings of the Royal Society be presented to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester. All books belonging to the Library to be returned at the end of the month and the Library closed in August. Mr. Robertson to have leave during August. |