| Description | ' At the anniversary Meeting of the Royal Society
The President in the Chair
Charles Hackett as one of the Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts on the part of the Society posted that,
At an audit of the Treasurer's Accounts held on Monday the 27th November 1820 it appeared,
That, the total Receipts for the year then closed including the balance of £1759.4.0d due on the olast years' account amounted to the sum of £4407.13.8, and the total Disbursements for the same year, including the sume of £2000 laid out in the purchase of Reduced 3 per cent Annuitius amonted to the Sume of $4177.1.5. so that there remains in the hands of the Treasurer a Balance of £230.12.3
The Thanks of the Society were voted to the Treasurer for his great care of the Society's Affairs, and to the Auditors for thier Trouble in examining his Accounts.
The President then announced the Following Deaths and Admissions into the Society, viz
Dead since the last Anniversary
His Sacred Majesty King George 3rd Patron
The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Banks Bart President
Robert Capper Esq
Reverenc Leonard Chappelow
Thomas Lord Dundas
Anthony Fothergill MD
George Gostlling Esq
John Viscount Kirkwall
Reverend Isaac Milner DD
Major General William Mudge
Reverencd William Pearee DD
William Phelps Perrin Esq
Sir Hone Popham Knight
Thomas Earl of Selkirk
Reverend William Tooke
Arthur Young Esq
Resigned
John Kingston Esq
Added tot he List since the last Anniversary
Reverenc James Devereux Hustler BD
Alfred Le Merchant Esq
Joseph Smith esq
Reverend William Daniel Connybeare
George Lewis Newnham Collingwood Esq
Reverend Jeremaih Ives
H T De la Beche Esq
Mr George Dollond
Lieutenant General Alexander Kyd
Robert Farquhar Esq
Reverend John Corrie
Sir John Sewell Knight
Reverend Henry Card
Lieutenant Mathew Curling Friend
John Phillips Higman Esq
Charles Mijlner Ricketts Esq
Reverend John Heath DD
Captain Thomas Colby Royal Engineer
Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Tylden
Wiliam whewell Esq
Reverend Francis Haggit
Thomas Philllips Esq
John Hall Esq
Right Honourable Sir Evan Nepean Bart
George Henry Noehden LLD
Loftus Longueville Clarke Esq
Wiliam Francklin MD
Captain Henry Napier RN
Thomas Frankland Lewes Esq
John George Lefevre Esq
John Deas Thornson Esq
Reverend Fearon Fallows AM
Foreign Member
M Theodore de Lausane
The President then announced the allotment of Sir Godfrey Copley's Prize Medal for this year to Professor John Christian Oersted, in the following Discourse;
[Speech given but not transcribed here]
Hereupon the Society proceeded to the Election of a President and Council for the year ensuing the Statutes for these Elections were read. Francis Beaufort and Henry Browne Esq were in the usual manner drawn Scrutators, and the Members gave in their Lists.
On examining these Lists the following was found to be the state of these Elections
Members of the old Council to continue the year ensuing viz.
William Blake Esq
William Thomas Brande Esq
John Earl Brownlow
Samuel Goodenough Lord Bishop of Carlisle
Taylor Combe Esq
Davies Gilbert Esq
Sir Everard Home Bart
Captain Henry Kater
John Pond Esq Asr. Roy.
William Hyde Wollaston MD
Thomas Young MD
Members of the Society chosen into the Council viz.
Edward Ash MD
John George Children Esq
Sir George Clerk Bart
Henry Thomas Colebrooke Esq
John Wilson Croker Esq
Sir Humphry Davy Bart
Charles Hatchett Esq
John Frederick William Herschel Esq
Joseph Plante Esq
George John Earl Spencer KG
Officers for the Year ensuing viz
President - Sir Humphry Davy Bart
Treasurer - Davies Gilbert Esq
Secretaries - William Thomas Brande Esq; Taylor Combe Esq
The Thanks of the Society were voted to the Secretaries for their trouble in assisting at the Election. ' |