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RefNoCMP/2/174
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date8 July 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; Joseph Dalton Hooker; William Hallowes Miller; John Percy; Lyon Playfair; 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 nominations of R.W. Bunsen, Louis Poinsot and Carl Theodor von Siebold as Foreign Members were confirmed. The Secretary was requested to draw up a letter to the Board of Works requesting them to attend to the state of the lawn, or to allow the learned societies to do so. Report of the Government Grant Committee in the form of minutes of the meeting of 7 July 1858, full text entered into the minutes: list of applicants for grants, and following discussion, a list of those recommended to Council for appropriations; received and adopted, on the assumption that the £1,000 of grant would be voted for by Parliament. Bill for payment, for coals. Letter from Mr. Horner, proposing that the specimens gathered during his researches into the alluvial land of Egypt should be placed with the British Museum, acceded to. The Secretary to make arrangement to print Mr. Owen's paper on Megatherium, on condition that he contribute a sum to defray the costs of making the drawings. Letter from Roderick Impey Murchison, requesting the use of the Great Hall for Royal Geographical Society meetings in the ensuing session. Letter from George Gabriel Stokes, The Royal Society, Burlington House, 8 July 1858, to Sir Roderick Impey Murchison, full text entered into the minutes: noting the Royal Geographical Society's request for meeting room use, but referring back to Murchison's letter of 10 June 1857, and asking what arangements the Geographical Society had made for permanent accommodation before offering a decision. Sir Charles Eastlake and Mr. Hardwick to form a committee with the Officers to consider the hanging of pictures and wall colours.
Extent3p; p.445-447
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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