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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date20 January 1853
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: Thomas Bell; James Booth; Benjamin Collins Brodie; Charles Brooke; Samuel Hunter Christie; William Willoughby Cole, 3rd Earl of Enniskillen; John Peter Gassiot; Thomas Graham; Henry Bence Jones; George Newport; Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Ellison Portlock; James Meadows Rendel; William Sharpey; Captain William Henry Smyth; William Spence; Nathaniel Wallich; the Treasurer and Vice-President, Edward Sabine, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. The Earl of Enniskillen and Mr. Rendel made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath as new Members of Council. Letter from Charles Babbage replying to the Secretary pursuant to the resolution at the last meeting: it was not Babbage's intention to prefer any charge against any Fellow having relation to the Statute for the ejection of Fellows: Council directed that the number of the Mechanics' Magazine should be returned to Mr. Babbage. Resolved that those portions of the resolution of 1847 relating to publication of the Abstracts be entered into the book. Letter from George Biddell Airy, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, 16 December 1852, to Thomas Bell, Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: enclosing the resolution of Council of the Royal Astronomical Society in reference to the proposed assignment of apartments at Kensington Gore. Resolution of Council of the Royal Astronomical Society, signed by Edward Sabine, 10 December 1852, full text entered into the minutes: noting the second report of the Commissioners for the Great Exhibition of 1851 and its errors in relation to members being favourable to the removal of the Society from Somerset House; while expressing gratitude for the Society's occupation of Somerset House for the past eighteen years, the suggested location at Kensington Gore, away from central London, woud make the working of the Society impossible and the organisation would petition the Queen to remain in occupation of Somerset House, in the event of the plan going ahead.
Extent2p; pp.240-241
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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