Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Lord Charles Cavendish; Mr Davall; Mr Clarke; Mr White; Dr BRadley; Mr Burrow; Mr Sotheby; Dr Heberden; Dr Birch and Dr Morton, Secretaries Minutes of the last Council read Balloted and ordered bill of £56-18-6d for paper to be paid to Messrs Job Johnson and Henry Unwin President reported on the letter he had left at the home of the Duke of Newcastle concerning the Memorial to be laid before the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury for a project ' the motives on which it is founded are the Improvement of Astronomy, and the honour of this Nation '. [Transcipt inserted in minutes] Offers received from Mr Ellicott FRS for loan of an Instrument of Equal Altitiude for the expedition, and from Dr Bradley for his Quadrant graduated under the eye of his uncle Mr Pound, and his assistant, to bear a part in this expedition.; which were accepted, and the recipients thanked. 10 July 1760