Minutes of a meeting of the Council of the Royal Society Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Lord Charles Cavendish; Mr Burrow; Mr Hyde; Mr Locke; Dr Miller; Mr Munckley; Mr Girle; Mr Watson; Dr Birch, Secretary Minutes of the last Council were read. Mr Benjamin Wilson allowed to take home and copy the pictures of Lord Bacon, and Sir Isaac Newton in the Meeting Room, after executing a bond for £100 as surety for returning them safely at the first meeting after the next recess. 23 June 1757