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: George Busk; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Philip Hardwick; Leonard Horner; William Hallowes Miller; John Percy; 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. The Treasurer was authorised to pay the sum of £487 9s. 3d. to the Acton Inclosure Account. Mr. Oakley was appointed Agent of the Royal Society for the purposes specified in the report of the Acton Estate Committee. Dr. Richard Bright applied for his arrears of Philosophical Transactions, granted. |