Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society 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: Neil Arnott; Arthur Cayley; George Peacock, the Very Reverend Dean of Ely; William Robert Grove; William Allen Miller; William Hallowes Miller; the Reverend Bartholomew Price; Sir James Clark Ross; General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Rear-Admiral William Henry Smyth; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, in the chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. A copy of part I of the Philosophical Transactions for 1846 and a copy of the report of the Committee of Physics was granted to Lieutenant Blakiston, who accompanies the North American Exploring Expedition. 11 June 1857