Record

RefNoCMP/1/45
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date25 June 1835
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: Henry De la Beche; William Thomas Brande; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; John George Children; Reverend Dr. Philip Jennings; Charles Konig; Charles Lyell; Herbert Mayo; Roderick Impey Murchison; William Parsons, Lord Oxmantown; Reverend George Peacock; Sir John Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Reverend William Whewell; the Treasurer, John William Lubbock, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Letter received from Mr. Few, stating that the Great Western Railway would not now pass through the Society's land at Acton. Application from the Depot de la Marine for Greenwich Observations of 1823, 1824 and 1832, granted. Resolution on the repeal of Statute V Chapter 1 stating that no elections of Fellows of Foreign Members shall take place except in certain months. Resolutions on the reading of certificates of election. Repeal of a resolution of 12 April 1832 ordering a circular with the names of candidates to be sent to Fellowship two weeks before the ballot. Letter from William Deville asking to examine a paper on a lamp invented by Count Rumford, granted, if the paper was indeed in the Societys possession.
Extent2p.; pp.77-78
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordMC/2/177
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