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  <dc:title>Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.

Commencing with a list of Council members present: Bryan Donkin; Reverend George Peacock, Dean of Ely; Thomas Galloway; William Robert Grove; Leonard Horner; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Dr. John Forbes Royle; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Dr. William Sharpey; Captain William Henry Smyth; Charles Wheatstone; John Wrottesley. 2nd Baron Wrottesley; the President, Spencer Joshua Alwyn Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Resolved that an instruction be given to the Charter Committee to consider the mode of electing Fellows.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 June 1846</dc:date>
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