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: Dr. John Bostock; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Sir Philip Egerton; Charles Konig; William Haseldine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Charles Wheatstone; Reverend William Whewell; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Sir Philip Egerton made and signed the declaration in lieu of the oath. Mr. Daniell applied for leave to print one hundred copies of his last paper in Philosophical Transactions, granted, at Daniell's expense. Letter from John Rickman asking permission for Mr. Thomas Rhodes to make extracts from Mr. Lloyd's survey of the Thames, granted. Application from Mr. W. H. White, Meteorologial Society, for permission for himself and Mr. Robert Carr Woods to inspect the meteorological instruments in the Royal Society's apartments, to compare standard instruments, granted. Report of the Medal Committee on the award of Royal Medals, recommending a three-year cycle of topics, adopted, subject to the approval of the Queen. List of proposed candidates for Foreign Membership, from which two would be selected. |