| 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: George Burrows; Heinrich Debus; Peter Martin Duncan; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton; George Carey Foster; Francis Galton; Joseph Dalton Hooker; William Huggins; George Murray Humphry; John Gwyn Jeffreys; Sir John Lubbock; William Hallowes Miller; William Sharpey; Charles William Siemens; Henry John Stephen Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; Alexander William Williamson; the Treasurer and Vice-President, William Spottiswoode, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Letter from Major-General Boileau requesting that meteorological observations taken by him at Simla and given to the Royal Society, be lent to him for printing, agreed. Letter from J. Cosmo Melvill, India Office, 24 February 1871, to Sir Edward Sabine, the Royal Society, Burlington House, full text entered into the minutes: giving thanks for the Society's advice on pendulum observations in India, and noting that attention would be drawn to the recommendation that Captain Basevi should use the pendulums at Aden and in Egypt. Discussion of Dr. Humphry's motion on the expediency of having the same named Fellow as President in the house list for more than two years: the motion withdrawn by Humphry. Consideration of the question of standing scientific committees was postponed. |