| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair;
' It was resolved unanimously that no strangers be admitted the present meeting.
The minutes of the last meeting were reqad.
The Right Honourable the Lord Greville and the Earl of Radnor were proposed for election : and being put to the Ballot immediately according to the Statuem were chosen fellows
It being reported to the Society, that Sir James Naesmith Bart. elected into the ?Society before the last long vacation, had paid his admission fee, and the further sum of twenty six guineas in lieu of contributions, in the month of August last, and was now in Scotland : It was ordered that his name be printed in the list of the Society and that he be admitted when he comes to London.
It was also reported that William Watson of Caius College Cambridge MB elected at the last meeting, had caused to be paid his admission fee, and twenty six guineas in lieu of contributions : and being now ipon his travels out of England, it was ordered that his name be printed in the list of the Society: and that he be admitted on his return to London.
Richard Henry Alexander Bennet Esq. also elelcted at the last meeting, having paid his admission fee, and the sum of twenty guineas in lieu of contributions, signed the obligation in the Charter books, and was admitted fellow.
Mr James D'argent of great Marlborough Street, late of Sidney Sussex College Cambridge, and one fo the physicians to the Westminster Hospital, was recommended for election : and the certificate in his favour was ordered to be fixed upon the public meeting room. It was signed C Wintringham, D P Lagard, William Hudson, Michael Morris, M Maty, J Malliet, H Watson.
The following presents were admitted at the table viz Physiological Reflexions of Caldani (in Italian) quarto printed at Venice, 1767
The transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Sweden, from July 1766, to September 1767, quarto in the Swedish language.
Plantie lapensis, quarto printed at Stockholm 1767
For which presents thanks were ordered to be returned severally.
It was resolved tht the titles of certain communications (the reading of which it is necessry to postpone on account of the extraordinary business of the day) be now announced to the Society : and when the papers themselves shall be read before the Society, such of them, as shall be approved of by the Committee of papers, shall be printed in the volume of the present year.
The titles were annexed accordingly; and are
1. Some additional particulars concerning corallises etc by J Ellis FRS
2. Dr Peter Woulfe's FRS Experiments on distillations of Acids, volatile Alealics etc.
The president read to the Society the several minutes of the Council (at their late meetings on December 11th, 14th, 16th, and 17th) relating to Mr Emanuel Mendez da Costa, Clerk, Librarian and Housekeeper to the Society ; After which it was resolved by Ballot (the yea's being Seventy two, and the no's ten) that the said Emanuel Mendez da Costa be now dismissed from the Office of Clerk to the Society (the appointment to which is in the body at large)
The Society resolved to proceed to the election of a Clerk in the room of Mr Emanuel Mendez da Costa, on thursday the 7th day of January next, and that no strangers should be admitted on that day.
The Society then adjourned, as usual, on account of the ensuing Festival, to thursday the 7th day of January 1768. ' |