| 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: Neil Arnott; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; William Benjamin Carpenter; Arthur Cayley; William Fairbairn; John Miers; William Allen Miller; William Hallowes Miller; James Paget; General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Rear-Admiral William Henry Smyth; John Stenhouse; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. In response to an application from Colonel James, he would be allowed 250 copies of his two papers at his own expense, in addition to the 100 copies furnished by the Society. The Treasurer reported that he had received the photographic copies of Secchi's drawing of the lunar spot Copernicus: thre Treasurer was requested to draw up a list of astronomers to whom copies might be sent. Letter from the Astronomer Royal, requesting that copies of the Greenwich Observations be sent to the Societe Meteorologiques de France, granted. Letter from Henry Sharpe accompanying a present of books from the Library of Daniel Sharpe, thanks returned. Letter from John Phillips conveying the thanks of the General Committee and Council of the British Association for a grant to light Kew Observatory with gas. Applications for extensions of time for admission to the Fellowship were received by Sir John Bowring, the Reverend Dr. Robinson and Captain Spratt and were approved. Request from the Council of the Microscopal Society, via Dr. Carpenter, for permission to use the ante room of the Great Hall at Burlington House for its meetings, referred to a committee appointed to superintend the removal of the Royal Society to Burlington House. Discussion of the adjudication of Royal Society Medals. Mr. Fairbairn requested the loan of portraits on behalf of the Committee of the Art Treasures Exhibition in Manchester: the request granted provided that arrangements could be made for the safety of the pictures. Dr. Stenhouse gave notice that he would move a resolution to make all expenses attendant on the Conversational Meetings to be defrayed from the funds of the Royal Society, in future. |