RefNoCMP/2/171
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date20 May 1858
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: George Busk; Arthur Farre; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; William Robert Grove; Philip Hardwick; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Leonard Horner; William Hallowes Miller; John Percy; Lyon Playfair; 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. Application from the London Committee appointed to carry out the Middle Class examination of the University of Oxford to use rooms. Letter from Conrad Hume Pinches, Honorary Secretary to the London Local Committee, 20 May 1858, to President and Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: explaining the unexpectedly large number of candidates for the University of Oxford examination in support of the application for room use, and noting that this request would not be repeated; resolved that the request be acceded to as an unforeseen emergency. Consideration of the Presidency was entered into and adjourned to the next meeting.
Extent1p; p.439
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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