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RefNoCMP/1/94
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date31 May 1838
DescriptionPrinted 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 Cavendish, Earl of Burlington; John George Children; Samuel Hunter Christie; John Frederick Daniell; Davies Gilbert; Reverend George Peacock; William Haseldine Pepys; Stephen Peter Rigaud; Peter Mark Roget; Captain William Henry Smyth; Benjamin Travers; James Walker; Charles Wheatstone; the Treasurer, Francis Baily, in the chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. Resolutions to be adopted in the award of Royal Medals, subject to the Queen's approval: medals in 1840 to be given for papers in physics and geology, including mineralogy; permament subject committees to be formed from members active in those area, to respond to questions from Council; committees should have seven members with the power to add more members, up to fifteen; eight committees proposed in mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, meteorology, mineralogy and geology, botany and vegetable physiology, and in zoology and animal physiology; members to be elected at next Council. The bill of Simpkin Marshall and Company, for books, to be paid.
Extent2p.; pp.175-176
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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