| 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: Francis Baily; Peter Barlow; William Thomas Brande; John George Children; William Clift; Michael Faraday; George Bellas Greenough; Reverend Dr. Philip Jennings; John William Lubbock; William Hasledine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; Captain William Henry Smyth; the President, His Royal Highness [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Report of the Finance Commiittee considered: the repeal of Statute section on compounding Fellowship payments at £40 to be proposed at another meeting, with the draft of a new Statute, raising this to £60. The cost of barometers being made by Mr. Newman and by Butzengeiger of Tubingen to be defrayed from the Donation Fund. Lord Adare and Dr. Wilson applied for extensions of time for admission into the Fellowship, granted. Mr. Palmer applied for permission to publish a letter from Sommering to Thomas Young in his Works of John Hunter, granted. Letter from J. Clayton Freeling, Excise Office, 12 April 1834, to Peter Mark Roget, full text entered into the minutes: noting that the Commissioners of Excise are discussing new bills for the regulation of duties on spirits, and asking if the Royal Society is to take the subject under consideration; the reply to ask if the communication is official and how it relates to an earlier letter by Thomas Spring Rice. The President had appointed the Reverend J. J. Ellis to preach the annual Fairchild Lecture at St. Leonard, Shoreditch. Thanks of the Geological Society for assistance in gaining additional rooms in Somerset House. Letter from Mr. J. Forshall, British Museum, stating the desirability of transferring oriental manuscripts from the Arundel Collection to the British Museum: the reply that the Society willing to do so, on receipt of suitable recompense. |