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: James Alderson; George Busk; Sir George Everest; Hugh Falconer; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Henry Bence Jones; James Clerk Maxwell; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; William Pole; William Sharpey; Archibald Smith; Henry John Stephen Smith; Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope; George Gabriel Stokes; James Joseph Sylvester; Thomas Watson; the Reverend Robert Willis; the President, Major-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of candidates for Fellowship of the Royal Society, to be recommened to the Society for election at the Annual Meeting on 2 June. Selection of three Foreign Members from the list prepared: Claude Bernard, J.B.L. Foucault and Adolph Wurtz were nominated to be ballotted for confirmation at a future meeting of Council. Ordered that Sir John Herschel's paper on nebulae was to be printed in Philosophical Transactions, to form part 1 of volume 154, and that 100 extra copies were to be printed. 21 April 1864