| 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: William Bowman; Robert Brown; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederic Daniell; George Dollond; Thomas Graham; John Thomas Graves; Sir John William Lubbock; Richard Owen; Joseph Pereira; Peter Mark Roget; 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. President reported the donation by Baroness Basset of a sculpture bust of Davies Gilbert and that he had returned thanks. Walter Crum applied for an extension to the period of admission to the Fellowship, granted. Letter from Frederick Scott Archer, 18 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, 12 February 1844, to President and Council, full text entered into the minutes: requesting to make a cast of the sculpture bust of Mary Somerville, with a list of Fellows requesting copies, deferred to next Council. Letter from Sir John William Lubbock, 2 March 1844 to Edward Sabine, full text entered into the minutes: on payments for various magnetic instruments for overseas observatories. With a reply from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, 6 March 1844, to John William Lubbock, full text entered into the minutes: explaining movements of instruments and payments for them. Correspondence between Few, Hamilton and Few, Durrant and Company, and Mr. Wheeler, 9 November 1843-8 March 1844, full text entered into the minutes: on the possession of land associated with the will of Edwin Hill Handley. On the duties of the Attendant to the Assistant Secretary, to be renumerated at £80 per annum. |