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: the Reverend John Barlow; Thomas Bell; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; John Percy; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Archibald Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; Charles Wheatstone; the Reverend William Whewell; the President, Benjamin Collins Brodie in the Chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Letter from Purnell B. Purnell of Stancombe Park, Dursley, requesting to make a copy of the portrait of Isaac Newton, now in the Council Room, agreed. Bill for payment, for lithography. Proposals for the award of Royal Society Medals were discussed. 27 October 1859