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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date2 February 1843
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; Samuel Hunter Christie; Reverend James Cumming; John Frederic Daniell; Dr. Robert Lee; Sir John William Lubbock; William Hallowes Miller; William Hasledine Pepys; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Charles Wheatstone; 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. The Duke of Norfolk, Sir Benjamin Heywood and Augustin Francis Bullock Creuze applied for extensions for admission to the Fellowship, approved. Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 24 January 1843, to Samuel Hunter Christie, full text entered into the minutes: acknowledging the safe receipt of the standard yard scale and Troy pound, consting to Council's conditions on storage and use, and noting the lack of the external brass lid on the Troy pound, the standards otherwise in good order. Dr. Roget reported for the Committee of Zoology, recommending a grant of £50 from the Donation Fund to George Newport to aid in investigations in anatomy and physiology; referred back to the Committee for detail on how the grant was intended to be applied. Report of the Committee of Astronomy on George Peacocok's leter on the printing of star catalogues, the Committee not willing to use the Royal Society's influence in an application to Government, Council to reply to George Peacock with that decision. Letter from John Booth addressed to Dr. Graves, requesting leave to withdraw his paper, or to obtain a copy of it; Booth to be informed that he might make a copy in the Society's apartments. Treasurer reported on a meeting between Mr. Few, the surveyor Mr. Newton, and John Essex, late tenant of the Acton Estate with his solicitor, to investigate the claim that Common Field Land was Essex's freehold; but it appeared that the claim could not be supported, with letters concerning an earlier claim from 1798, and a list of plots for further enquiry.
Extent3p.; pp.406-408
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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