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; William Cavendish, Earl of Burlington; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Charles Konig; William Haseldine Pepys; Peter Mark Roget; John Forbes Royle; Captain William Henry Smyth; Benjamin Travers; Charles Wheatstone; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. New members of Council made and signed the declaration in lieu of the oath. The Treasurer applied on behalf of the Copenhagen Observatory for a grant of the Greenwich Observations, granted. Letter from Dr. Alexander Keith requesting permission to copy figures on astronomy from the Philosophical Transactions for his work on general evidences of Christianity, granted. Letter from Mr. J. G. Ulrick requesting a grant from the Donation Fund for experiments on the construction of chronometers, not recommended. Mr. T. Wharton Jones applied to take a copy of his paper on the ova of mammifera, granted. |