| 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; Arthur Farre; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; William Robert Grove; Philip Hardwick; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Leonard Horner; William Hallowes Miller; John Percy; 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. Letter from the Secretary of the Royal Dublin Society expressing regret that the application read at the last meeting had been made in error. Applications from the Council of Military Education for the use of rooms for examinations, acceded to: in future, the President or Treasurer was authorised to grant such applications, reporting them to Council. List of wages and salaries for Officers and Staff of the Royal Society. List of bills for payment, for printing, paper, and for other expenses. Mr. Stokes gave notice that he would propose at the next meeting a plan for aiding the Committee of Papers in decisions about publication in doubtful cases. Resolved that thanks were given to the Viceroy of Egypt for assistance given in the late geological researches in the Nile Valley, by Leonard Horner and Hekekyan Bey. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: a Royal Medal to be awarded to Charles Lyell for the advance of geology; a Royal Medal to Albany Hancock for researches on the anatomy of mollusca; a Royal Medal to William Lassell for astronomical discoveries and researches; and the Rumford Medal to M.J. Jamin for experimental researches on light. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Royal Society for service in the ensuing year. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia to be placed on the list of institutions entitled to receive the Royal Society's pubications. |