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: Thomas Bell; Reverend James Booth; Samuel Hunter Christie; Warren De La Rue; Thomas Graham; William Robert Grove; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Henry Huxley; Henry Bence Jones; Sir Frederick Pollock; Reverend Baden Powell; George Gabriel Stokes; Colonel Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Admiral William Henry Smyth; William Tite; Charles Wheatstone; the President, William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. List of candidates for the Fellowship to be recommended for election at the next meeting for that purpose. Colonel Sabine reported that he had written to Lord Wrottesley in accordance with the resoloution of the previous meeting of Council, and Wrottesley's reply was read. |