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: John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; George Bellas Greenough; Charles Konig; William Lawrence; John William Lubbock; William Haseldine Pepys; Reverend Adam Sedgwick; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Letter from Lord Melbourne, South Street, 5 October 1837, to the Duke of Sussex, full text entered into the minutes: noting that Her Majesty [Queen Victoria] is willing to extent her protection to the Royal Society [as Royal Patron] and would receive Council between 9 and 20 November. Letter from Sir John Barrow, Admiralty, 22 July 1837, to John George Children, full text entered into the minutes: the Lords of the Admiralty have appointed a committee to consider Mr. Christie's statement on the proposed magnetic observations. Letter from Sir John Rennie, Whitehall Place, 18 October 1837, to Francis Bailey, full text entered into the minutes: Rennie has had the levels taken from the markers on New London Bridge and Waterloo Bridge and finds that the Waterloo Bridge level is 3 feet and 1.65 of an inch above the London Bridge marker; thanks returned. The Treasurer applied for a copy of Philosophical Transactions for 1798, since he is about to repeat Cavendish's experiments to determine the mean density of the Earth, granted. Mr. Davies applied for an unpublished paper by Mr. Horner, read in 1823, for publication with Horner's other papers, granted. Lieutenant Beecher applied for the use of wood blocks employed in Mr. Barlow's paper on lighthouses, granted. Consideration of the award of Royal Medals: no candidates had been proposed for geology and mineralogy, therefore Council considered candidates for physics, where three were proposed. Consideration of the award of the Copley Medal, five candidates listed. |