| 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; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederic Daniell; George Dollond; Thomas Graham; Sir James Clark Ross; 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. Dr. Roget reported that Walter White was the best candidate for Attendant, resolved that he should be appointed. Letter from Francis Baily requesting the loan of Sir George Shuckburgh's brass scale, granted. The Astronomer Royal had sent 100 copies of Magnetic and Meteorological Observations made at Greenwich; these to be distributed to the recipients of the Astronomical Observations and others. A notice on the discontinuation of the meteorological observations at the apartments of the Royal Society to be inserted into Philosophical Transactions, full text entered into the minutes. Resolved that the number of copies of Proceedings printed to be reduced from 1500 to 1250. Thomas Rymer Jones applied for an extension for his admission to the Fellowship, granted. Mr. Petty Vaughan applied for a copy of the Proceedings for the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia, granted. Mr. Daniell applied for permission to have 100 copies of his last paper printed, granted. Letter from Sir John Frederick William Herschel, Collingwood, 1 May 1844, ot the President of the Committee of Physics, full text entered into the minutes: on Lieutenant C.M. Elliott's remarks on a magnetic survey of the stations adjacent to Singapore. Letter from Edward Sabine, Woolwich, 29 April 1844, to Sir John Frederick Willaim Herschel, full text entered into the minutes: enclosing Lieutenant Elliott's paper with remarks, full text of the paper entered into the minutes. Resolved that the subject of Herschel's and Sabine's letters be recommended to the Directors of the East India Company. Offer of Mr. Watt to provide a suitable pedestal for his father's [James Watt] sculpture bust, with a corresponding one for the bust of Isaac Newton, accepted with thanks. |