| 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; Samuel Hunter Christie; Charles Daubeny; Bryan Donkin; Thomas Galloway; William Robert Grove; Leonard Horner; Reverend George Peacock, Dean of Ely; Peter Mark Roget; Dr. John Forbes Royle; Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Sabine; Dr. William Sharpey; Captain William Henry Smyth; John Taylor; 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. An alternative form of notice for the award of Royal Medals was resolved, full text entered into the minutes. Letter from Mr. Owen reporting the thanks of Dr. Schwann for award of the Copley Medal. Letter from T. Crofton Croker, 4 Hyde Park Gate South, Kensington Gore, 25 March 1846, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on behalf of the Council of the British Archaeological Association, noting railway tunnel construction in the vicinity of Greenwich Observatory, and its possible impact on observations; the Secretary to inform Mr Croker that the Royal Society will not interfere but that the Astronomer Royal and Admiralty would take care that no injury should arise. Letter from Dr. Lee on the award of a Royal Medal for Physiology last year: the reply that Council cannot revise the grounds for the award and forwarding the most recent resolution. Resolution of the Committee of Physics recommending £50 from the Donation Fund to be awarded to Francis Ronalds in constructing self-registering apparatus for magnetic and meteorological observations, adopted. |