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: William Allen; William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; William Willoughby Cole, Viscount Cole; George Bellas Greenough; Charles Konig; John Lindley; John William Lubbock; William Haseldine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; Captain William Henry Smyth; William Henry Fox Talbot; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Viscount Cole was sworn in as a new member of Council. Mr. Bailliere's bill of £40 9s. to be settled. Treasurer reported on Mr. Gould's application for relief, no action to be taken in view of Gould's death. Treasurer had not yet applied to the Speaker of the House of Commons for reports. Treasurer authorised to pay £6 5s. as two year's rates. Treasurer to confer with Mr. Few on the form of declaration in lieu of the oath. On the application of Mr. G. H. Glover, a quarto copy of the Abstracts of Proceedings to be granted to His Majesty's Library. Application from Mr. Hawkins for a specimen of the Royal Medals for his collection, granted. Mr. Children announced his resignation from office from the next Anniversary. List of resolutions from the Report of the Committee appointed to consider Baron Humboldt's letter, full text entered into the minutes: accepting the offer of the Master General of the Ordnance in aiding the plan of Baron Humboldt in conducting magnetic observations, with a list of permanent stations, instruments for each station at a cost of £30 each, observations to be made in a manner recommended by Sir John Herschel; the Report approved and the committee to carry out the measures recommended. Lieutenant Denison thanks and ordered to be added to the Committee. Extract of a letter from Sir David Brewster, Allerby by Melrose, 8 April 1837, to John William Lubbock, full text entered into the minutes: the heliostat he had constructed by an Edinburgh optician proved unsatisfactory and therefore he had employed a living heliostat, a boy, to turn the reflecting mirror and he asks Council's permission to substitute a solar telescope and rock salt prism to observe the lines in the spectrum, giving details of the instrument requirements; referred to the Donation Fund Committee. Mr. Lubbock and Mr. Talbot to be added to the Donation Fund Committee.
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