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RefNoCMP/1/201
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date11 December 1845
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: Dr. John Bostock; Sir William Burnett; Samuel Hunter Christie; Charles Daubeny; Reverend George Peacock, Dean of Ely; Thomas Galloway; William Robert Grove; Leonard Horner; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Captain William Henry Smyth; 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. New members of Council made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. The President noted the appointment of Vice-Presidents. Re-appointment of Committees, with lists of members: Library Committee; Committee of Mathematics; Committee of Astronomy; Committee of Physics, including Meteorology; Committee of Chemistry; Committee of Mineralogy and Geology; Committee of Botany and Vegetable Physiology; Committee of Zoology and Animal Physiology; resolved that these be convened as quickly as possible to choose chairmen. Letter from Captain Henry G. Napier, requesting re-election to the Royal Society; resolved that he be proposed for re-election. Mr. A Shafto Adair applied for an extension to the period for admission, granted. Mr. Grove applied to have 80 copies of his paper, granted on the usual conditions. M. Kupffer applied through Edward Sabine for copies of the Greenwich Magnetic Observations for observatories at Moscow, Kiev, Cherkov and Warsaw, and also for Admiral Lutke and M. Kupffer, granted.
Extent3p.; pp.510-512
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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