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RefNoCMP/1/57
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date3 March 1836
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: John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; Joseph Henry Green; Charles Konig; John William Lubbock; Herbert Mayo; Roderick Impey Murchison; Sir John Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Captain William Henry Smyth; Reverend William Whewell; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Report of the Excise Committee, full text entered into the minutes: with recommendations on instruments, tables and weighing, adopted by Council and transmitted to the Lord of the Treasury. Resolution of the Excise Committee referring to two letters by J. Clayton Freeling on the relative merits of Bate's and Allan's saccharometers, to be sent to the Board of Excise. Report of the sub-commmittee on the application by Professor Wheatstone for a Donation Fund grant, approved. Letter from Mr. Harris to J. G. Children requesting that documents be produced before the Privy Council: Mr. Roberton to attend the Privy Council next Saturday, with the Letter Book in question and a copy of the Philosophical Transactions containing an abstract of the letter, but not other requested books. Letter from Mr. William John Carr, requesting the production of documents before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, as evidence in support of Mr. Bate's petition for prolongation of his hydrometer and saccharometer patents: Mr. Roberton to take the minute book of the Excise Committee for the purpose. Mr. Shuckard to attend the Society's rooms in Mr. Roberton's absence. Letter from Anthony Panizzi, 1 March 1836, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the disordered state of the Society's map collection, which Panizzi cannot undertake to make good, but would supervise a competent person in the work. Mr. Shuckard to be requested to rearaange the Society's map collection as the Library Commiittee directs. Dr. William Clark and David Baillie requested an extension of time for admission to the Fellowship, granted. Letter from George Bentham, Secretary of the Horticultural Society, noting discrepencies between meteorological observations taken at the Royal Society's apartments and those taken at the garden in Chiswick, desiring to publish this: Council give thanks for the communication and do not object to its publication. Resolved that 250 copies of the Proceedings of the Excise Committee be published.
Extent7p.; pp.98-104
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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