| 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; Sir William Burnett; George Dollond; Thomas Graham; Peter Mark Roget; Dr. William Sharpey; John Wrottesley. 2nd Baron Wrottesley; 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. Payment of £82 ordered to be made to Mr. Westmacott for bust pedastals for the Meeting Room. The President had written to Sir Robert Peel transmitting the letter of Sir George Murray, but had received no reply as yet. Resolutions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on the continuation of magnetic and meteorological observations, full text entered into the minutes: Council concur with these resolutions and urge their adoption on H.M. Government and the East India Company; a committee to be convened to draw up a report to be sent to those bodies. Resolved that the President should represent to Government the desirability of offering a reward for improvements in self-recording magnetic and meteorological apparatus. Six weeks' leave granted to Charles Richard Weld. All Library books to be returned by 26 July and the Library closed for August. Consideration of Mr. Weld's letter postponed. |