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: Francis Baily; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Charles Giles Bridle Daubeny; Thomas Galloway; Thomas Graham; Sir John Frederick William Herschel; Francis Kiernan; John William Lubbock; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Reverend Adam Sedgwick; 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. A gratuity of £10 to be awarded to Mrs. Coppard. Expenses of £178 5s. 6d., to be paid to Messrs. Few, Hamilton and Few. A copy of the Philosophical Transactions to be granted to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna. Treasurer reported that Colonel Sir Andrew Leith Hay, John Augustus Lloyd and Charles Henry Oakes had defaulted on annual contributions. Resolved that one Copley Medal should be awarded this year, to Robert Brown; and that a committee be formed to enquire whether there was an unappropriated Copley Medal. Appointment of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Mr. Keirnan asked for permission to make extracts of Dr. Hake's paper on the spleen, granted. Report of the Meteorological Committee, recommending that meteorological observations in the archives should be kept in a separate department, open for further records in the future: recommendation that copies of the 'General instructions for making meteorological observations...' be sent in response to enquiries from the Colonial Office, East India Company and Trinity House. |