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: John Couch Adams; Arthur Cayley; William Fairbairn; William Farr; Sir Henry Holland; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Hallows Miller; Joseph Prestwich; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; Arthur William Williamson; Colonel Philip Yorke; the President, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Report of the auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Dr, Stebbing appointed as Fairchild Lecturer for the ensuing year. Letter from R.W. Sievier, 6 Guildford Street, Russell Square, 9 November 1861, to the President and Council of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: explaining that he has been absent on the Continent and that his Fellowship subscriptions were to have been paid by Mr. Skey, but he had neglected to do this, and requesting that he pay the subscriptions due and be reinstated as a Fellow; prefaced by a note stating that Sievier had previously been in default and had been readmitted in 1856; the matter to be put to the next Ordinary Meeting in accordance with Statutes. Letter from John Phillips, Oxford, 27 November 1861, to [the Royal Society], full text entered into the minutes: enclosing a resolution of Council of the British Association, applying for the use of a room in Burlington House for Council meetings, the request acceded to. Charles Spencer Bate and George Johnstone Stoney were granted an extension of time for admission into the Fellowship. £25 from the Scientific Relief Fund to be placed at the disposal of Mr. Bell for the use of Mr. C.L. Martin on the recommendation of the committee. |