| 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: Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Philip Hardwick; Leonard Horner; 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. The Treasurer informed Council that he had attended the delivery of the Fairchild Lecture, by the Reverend Robert Walker, in company with the President of the Linnean Society. Application from the War Department requesting the use of the Great Hall and Lower Library for examinations for the Royal Miltary Academy in July: granted subject to the Council of Military Education's use, already agreed. Letter from W.H. Sykes, East India House, 26 May 1858, to William Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: expressing anxiety to hasten the publication of the magnetic amd physical researches of the brothers Schlagintweit, employed in India. Letter from Edward Sabine, 14 May 1858, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, extract of text entered into the minutes: noting that the Schlagintweits had called upon him to show their work from eighty-eigtht stations in India, which he judged to be done with industry and fidelity; it augers very well for their work; resolved that the extract be transmitted to Colonel Sykes. Report of the special committee to watch over the interests of the Royal Society's freehold property at Acton, full text entered into the minutes: on the rearrangement of scattered slips of property, road building, and meetings of the landowners, with a list of claimants with land quantities and values; recommending that a cheque be passed to Mr. Oakley who would be authorised to act as agent of the Royal Society. Bill for payment, for lithography. Mr. Gassiot stated that General Sabine was unable to attend this meeting, but that he intended to bring under consideration the salaries of Officers in the next session. The delivery of the Croonian Lecture by Professor Huxley was set for 17 June. The President stated that in response to the request made at the last meeting, he had communicated their wish to Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie that he would allow himself to be nominated for the office of President. |