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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date30 November 1857
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: Neil Arnott; William Benjamin Carpenter; Arthur Cayley; William Robert Grove; William Hallowes Miller; Lyon Playfair; General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; the President, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, in the chair..

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. The Treasurer reported the sale of £1500 Consols. The Secretary stated that he had sent to the Treasury a return for the year ending 5 April 1856 on Government Grant expenditure, full text entered into the minutes. The Royal Society concurred on the propriety of taking the case of the Handley bequesdt to the Court of Chancery to determine the right to the balance of money received from the Staines and Wokingham Railway Company: and the capacity of the Royal Society to take landed estate under devise. The Reverend R. Walker was appointed Fairchild Lecturer for the ensuing year. Sir Philip Malpas de Gray Egerton was elected a Trustee of Sir John Soane's Museum. Letter from Lord Panmure indicating his desire to reoccupy room sin Burlington House for holding examinations in January: the request acceded to, on condition hat the Librarian should have access to books in the Lower Library. Letter from Viscount Enfield requesting permission for an artist to copy a portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, permission granted. Letter from the Earl of Rosse enclosing a letter from Lord de Ros, requesting that Mr. Stanford be allowed to republish Admiral Beechey's tidal chart of St. George's Channel: the request agreed to on condition that the map was not altered, that it sould indicate the source and that a proof should be sent in advance for collation with the original.
Extent2p; pp.411-412
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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