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: 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. |