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. John Bostock; Sir William Burnett; Samuel Hunter Christie; Charles Daubeny; Reverend George Peacock, Dean of Ely; Thomas Galloway; William Robert Grove; Leonard Horner; Peter Mark Roget; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Dr. William Sharpey; Captain William Henry Smyth; Reverend Robert Willis; 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 Reverend Willis made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Letter from Dr. Falconer withdrawing from the Committee of Physiology; Mr. Bishop appoointed in his place. Letter from Sir John Ross, London, 10 December 1845, to Captain W. H. Smyth, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on seeing Michael Faraday's paper on the magnetization of light noted in periodicals as having been read at the Royal Society, Ross claims to have already made the new discovery, referring to his account of his late voyage and a report of a committee of the House of Commons. Resolved that 100 free copies of papers be offered to authors of papers instead of the 20 currently offered. Resolved that application be made to the Government for 100 additional copies of the Greenwich Magnetical Observations.. A committee to be appointed to report on matters to do with the publishing of Philosophical Transactions; Mr. Horner and current members of the Library Committee. Council did not object to the reading of a certificate of candidature on behalf of Lieutenant Joseph Henry Kay, not in the usual form, the Fellows signing the certificate residing in Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana]. Letter from Michael Faraday, Royal Institution, 15 December 1845, to Samuel Hunter Christie, full text entered into the minutes: returning nine pieces of platinum and palladium borrowed from the Royal Society, all magnetic, retaining one piece of palladium for 'working up'. List of seventeen candidates for Foreign Membership recommended by committees, three to be selected at the next meeting. |