Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society Present at the meeting: James Burrow Esq Vice President int he chair; Mr Baker; Mr Belchier; Mr Clarke; Dr Crusius; Mr Davall; Dr Munkley; Dr Parsons; Mr Short; Dr watson; Dr Birch and Dr Morton, Secretaries Minutes of 4 March read Reported by C Morton ' the steps which had been taken by the President, in relation to his late Majesty's grant of the Secound Eight hundred pounds for the observations at Bencoolen [Bengkulu, Sumatra, Indonesia]; and a Copy of his Lordship's late Letter upon that Subject, to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. ' Mr Short offered, and it was ordered, ' that Mr Charles Mason deliver at Mr Short's House in Surry Street, the Instruments lately returned from the Cape of Good Hope to be inspected by Mr Short; and then to be reposited here, at the Society's House. ' Ordered by ballot the Treasurer to pay the bills of Elizabneth Richardson for printing, and Samuel Revington for stoves. 13 May 1762