| 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; Dr. Martin Barry; Henry James Brooke; Robert Brown; Samuel Hunter Christie; Dr. Robert Lee; William Hasledine Pepys; 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. Full text of a letter of condolence from the Royal Society to H.M. Queen Victoria on the death of the Duke of Sussex. Resolved that copies of the Philosophical Transactions and the Greenwich Observations be given to the United States Observatory at Washington. Letter from Henry Hall R.E., Graham's Town, Great Fish River Valley, Cape Colony Frontier, referred to Sir John Herschel for his opinion on its proposal. Letter from the Reverend John Barlow, Secretary of the Royal Institution, requesting the loan of historical telescopes to illustrate a lecture; declined with the exception of the telescope on Barlow's plan made by Dollond. Letter from J. N. G. Gutch, 38 Foley Place, addressed to President and Council, requesting on behalf of the Meteorological Society, permission to publish tables and papers ordered not to be printed in Philosphical Transactions, and for a grant of duplicate publications, declined. George Biddell Airy requested 50 copies of his latest paper in Philosophical Transactions, Michael Faraday and Dr. Hoskins requested 100 copies of their papers, granted. Letter from Sir John Herschel requesting permission on behalf of Richard Taylor, editor of the London and Edinburgh Philosophical Magazine, to take 750 impressions from plate 15 from Herschel's second paper on photography, granted. |