| 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: Dr. Neil Arnott; Francis Baily; William Thomas Brande; Samuel Hunter Christie; William Henry Fitton; William Hopkins; William Lawrence; Sir John William Lubbock; William Haseldine Pepys; George Rennie; Peter Mark Roget; Lieutenant-Colonel William Henry Sykes; 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. The Bishop of Norwich applied for an extension to the period for admission to the Fellowship, granted. Resolved that the period for admission to the Fellowship for Captain Owen Stanley be extended until his return to England. Letter from Charles Few, Covent Garden, to Sir John William Lubbock, full text entered into the minutes: requesting a cheque for the rates on the Mablethorpe Estates and noting an application from Mr. Sibthorpe for £2 per acre to meet current expenses; payments of £53 13s. 3d., and £110 respectively, authorised. Dr. Robert Lee applied for the loan of drawing accompanying his paper on Decidua for copying; the response to be that drawings cannot be taken from the archives, but that copying may be done in the Society's apartments. Dr. Wilson Philip applied to republish parts of his papers for Philosphical Transactions in a work in press, permission granted. Note from Mr. Gurney, St. James's Square, 6 April 1842, presenting a portrait of Thomas Young by H. P. Briggs, copied from a work by Sir Thomas Lawrence, thanks to be given for the present. |