| 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: Warren de La Rue; William Henry Flower; William Huggins; John Gwyn Jeffreys; John Marshall; Augustus Matthiessen; William Allen Miller; William Hallowes Miller; Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquis of Salisbury; William Sharpey; Charles William Siemens; John Simon; Archibald Smith; Henry John Stephen Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; Alexander William Williamson; the President, General Sir Edward Sabine, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. As new Members of Council, Mr. Huggins, the Marquis of Salisbury and Professor Smith made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Letter from Major-General Boileau, asking for copies of his Simla meteorological tables: 100 copies supplied to him from store. A copy of the index to the Philosophical Transactions granted to the Philosophical Society of Leeds. The sum of £86 2s. 4d., received from Mr. Siemens to be placed in the credit of the fund for purchase of scientific equipment of the late Porcupine Expedition, being the expense incurred for the construction of the electric thermoscope for deep sea temperatures, thanks given. Letter from Mr. George Grove, Secretary of the Crystal Palace Company, requesting copies of Royal Society medals on behalf of Dr. Ruppell of Frankfurt: this to be allowed for the Copley and Rumford medals, in tin or another soft metal, if the Royal Mint is not inconvenienced. Letter from Mr. Neumayer, transmitting manuscript copies of meteorological, electrical and magnetical observations made at Melbourne, 1858-1863, thanks returned for the 15 volumes received. Appointment of a committee to report on physical science observations which might be made on the expected solar eclipse of 21-22 December 1870. |