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RefNoCMP/1/105
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date22 December 1838
DescriptionPrinted 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: Francis Baily; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Sir John Frederick William Herschel; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Robert Bently Todd; Charles Wheatstone; the President, Spencer Joshua Alwyn Compton, 2nd Marquess of Northampton, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Report of the Joint Committee on Physics and Meteorology on the esablishment of fixed magnetic observatories and on the sending of an expedition to the Antarctic seas, full text entered into the minutes: recommending a plan to make simultaneous observations at stations in concert with other European observatories; and giving reasons for supporting an expedition to the southern seas, the report approved and adopted. Resolved to recommend to H.M. Government: the mounting of an Antarctic Expedition; the establishment of fixed magnetic observatories in Canada, St. Helena, Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana], Ceylon and the Cape of Good Hope; that a deputation of President, Secretaries and others meet Lord Melbourne to urge the government to adopt these measures. Letter from Anthony Panizzi, British Museum, 15 December 1838, to Peter Mark Roget, Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: claiming £322 for his work on the Library Catalogue, setting out his calculation. Captain James Ross applied to borrow the Society's chronometer stove, granted. Letter from William Tooke on the conduct of a Fellow, to take take steps on his expulsion from the Society. Letter from Mr. J. E. Gray asking to withdraw from the Committee on Botany. The Treasurer requested permission to take impressions from plates illustrating his paper on the tides, granted. Mr. Tomes applied to take a copy of his paper on the structure of the teeth, granted.
Extent7p.; pp.196-202
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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