| 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: Bryan Donkin; Reverend George Peacock, Dean of Ely; Thomas Galloway; William Robert Grove; Leonard Horner; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Dr. John Forbes Royle; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Dr. William Sharpey; Captain William Henry Smyth; Charles Wheatstone; 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. Resolved that an instruction be given to the Charter Committee to consider the mode of electing Fellows. |