| 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; George Busk; Arthur Farre; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; William Robert Grove; Philip Hardwick; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Leonard Horner; James Prescott Joule; William Allen Miller; Richard Owen; John Percy; Lyon Playfair; the Reverend Bartholomew Price; General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Archibald Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; 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. New Members of Council made and subscribed to the Declaration in lieu of the Oath. Reappointment of the Library Committee with membership, terms of reference and budget. Appointments to the Government Grant Committee, replacing members now on Council. The President called attention to the Treasurer's report on the financial state of the Royal Society, and this would be considered at the next meeting. Council having considered the resolution of the British Association on the importance of observations on terrestrial magnetism., a committee was formed to cooperate with the Association's committee on the subject. £150 was granted from the Donation Fund to Kew Observatory for a screw cutting machine. Resolution of the Linnean Society's Council on a conference between the Royal, Chemical and Linnean Society Officers on the use of meeting rooms in Burlington House. Liverpool Observatory to be placed on the list of institutions entitled to receive Royal Society journals. John Tyndall applied for arrears of the Philosophical Transactions, granted. |