Journal Book Copy: copy minutes of the ordinary meetings of the Royal Society The Journal Books exist in original and copy versions. They contain minutes of the ordinary meetings of the Society, setting out the following information; person in the chair, news of elections to the Fellowship and the Council, non-Fellows given leave to be present, and books and rarities presented to the Society. Letters and papers read before the Society are given in abstract with any subsequent discussion. By the nineteenth century much of this earlier detail had been lost, so that, for example, only titles of papers are recorded. This copy version is a transcription of the Journal Book Original. 1660-1826