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: William Allen; Francis Baily; Dr. John Bostock; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; Joseph Henry Green; William Lawrence; Dr. John Lindley; Reverend George Peacock; William Haseldine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; the President, His Royal Highness [Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Draft of an address to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria, full text entered into the minutes: received and adopted, ordered to be engrossed and illuminated. Letter from A. G. Spearman, Treasury Chambers, 11 August 1837, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: in response to the report by the Astronomer Royal and Mr. Christie on Baron von Humboldt's proposals for magnetic observations, the Lords of the Admiralty have allocated £500 from public funds for the purchase of instruments, payable to the Royal Society. |