| 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; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; John George Children; William Clift; Michael Faraday; Davies Gilbert; George Bellas Greenough; William Hasledine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; Captain William Henry Smyth; the Treasurer, John William Lubbock, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Bills of £1,521 2s. relating to printing Philosophical Transactions ordered to be paid. An additional bill of £26 14s. 9d. of Mr. Cubitt's for fitting up rooms, ordered to be paid. Extract of a letter from Mr Pentland, Paris, 14 November 1834, to J. W. Lubbock, full text entered into the minutes: on publication exchanges with the Depot de la Marine, agreed to. Letter from Sir Charles Bell, 26 November 1834, to the Secretary [no content specified]. Letter from James Hudson, 20 November 1834, to the President and Council, full text entered into the minutes: Hudson resigning his position as Assistant Secretary and Librarian. William Snow Harris proposed by Michael Faraday as a candidate for the Copley Medal. Adjudication of the Royal Medal for Geology and Mineralogy deferred until the next meeting. Report of the Committee on a Royal Medal for Physics, recommending the award of a Royal Medal to John William Lubbock, for his papers on tides, and declining to propose a specific prize question for the 1837 award; instead favouring the award to the most important unpublished paper before June 1837. Mr. Taylor's offer to set up the classed catalogue in type according to his estimate, accepted. |