| 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: Sir George Back; the Reverend John Barlow; Thomas Bell; Arthur Cayley; Sir Henry Holland; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; Thomas Webster; Alexander William Williamson; the Reverend Robert Willis; Sir William Page Wood; John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley; Colonel Philip Yorke; the President, Benjamin Collins Brodie in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of Foreign Members for the selection of candidates for Foreign Membership, to be nominated at the next meeting. Report of the Committee for Remuneration of Secretaries, full text entered into the minutes: giving the history of payments to Secretaries, commencing during Sir Isaac Newton's Presidency; noting the increase in activity since the last revision in 1799 and suggesting a raising of the gratuity to the two principal Secretaries from £105 to £200; and for the Foreign Secretary raising from £20 to £100. A committee to be formed to consider and report on the duties of the Foreign Secretary. Report of the Library Committee stating progress with the Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs: the work to be continued, with £150 allocated for expenses. The Treasurer noted that a paper by J.H. Neale of 1853 was missing from the archives, a committee to enquire into the matter. Letter from Hermann and Robert de Schlagintweit, 6 February 1860, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text of an extract entered into the minutes: requesting that the Society accept the dedication of magnetic obersvations within their 'Results of a Scientific Mission to India and High Asia' following the Society's support; accepted by resolution. Letter from the Secretary of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, requesting support for a public museum in Calcutta. James Pettigrew to be appointed Croonian Lecturer and James Clerk Maxwell to be appointed Bakerien Lecturer. Letter from the Secretary of the Zoological Society requesting back numbers of the Philosophical Transactions, as part of the existing exchange of publications with the Royal Society, granted. Joseph Jackson Lister applied for arrears of the Philosophical Transactions for the last five years, granted. Professor Huxley gave notice that he would move a resolution at the next meeting requiring that papers submitted should be accompanied by space and cost estimates and that referees shoud return papers within a certain time. List of bills for payment, for binding and other expenses. |