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RefNoCMP/2/126
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date14 June 1855
DescriptionPrinted 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; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; Warren De La Rue; Thomas Henry Huxley; John Miers; the Reverend Baden Powell; William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse; Colonel Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Rear-Admiral William Henry Smyth; Robert Stephenson; George Gabriel Stokes; William Tite; Charles Wheatstone; the President, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. An interim report from the Committee on the Fairchild Lecture was received, and correspondence was read on the same subject: resolved that the subject be referred to the Committee again, with authorisation to consult the Society's solicitor, for a further report. Letter from Messrs. Robinson and Atkinson, solicitors of Beverley, requesting that Council allow volumes of the Franklin Institute from the Society's Library to be produced in evidence for a case at York Assizes, and asking which Officer of the Society might be served with a subpoena for that purpose: resolved that Council was willing to accede to the request, authorising the Librarian, Charles Richard Weld to attend in York with the books, on condition that his travelling and hotel expenses were paid and his time remunerated. Resolved by ballot that Julius Plucker, Heinrich Rathke, Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Carl Rumker would be recommended to the Royal Society for election as Foreign Members. Sir John Liddell and Mr. Kiernan applied for arrears of the Philosophical Transactions for the last five years, granted. Read a communication from the Kew Observatory Committee on expenses connected with their contribution of instruments to the Paris Exhibition. On the motion of Professor Wheatstone, the name of M. Foucault of Paris was added to the list of candidates for the Copley Medal. The Earl of Rosse gave notice that he would propose at the next meeting the desirability that an addition should be made to the number of the Council.
Extent2p; pp.324-325
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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