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; the Reverend James Booth; Samuel Hunter Christie; Warren De La Rue; Thomas Graham; William Robert Grove; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Thomas Henry Huxley; Henry Bence Jones; the Reverend Baden Powell; 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. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: candidates for medals proposed and seconded, with brief citations; Johannes Muller, Henry Victor Regnault and Emile Heinrich Dubois Reymond for the Copley Medal; Sir William R. Hamilton, Dr. Hofmann, John Hind, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Edward Forbes, and John Lindley for Royal Medals; Mr. Power and Louis Pasteur for the Rumford Medal. Resolved by ballot that Karl Ernst Von Baer, Michel Chasles and Friedrich Wohler would be recommended to the Royal Society for election as Foreign Members. |