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: Rear-Admiral Frederick William Beechey; William Benjamin Carpenter; the Reverend James Challis; John Miers; William Allen Miller; William Hallowes Miller; James Paget; General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; John Stenhouse; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. List of astronomers and observatories to whom photographic copies of the drawing of the lunar spot Copernicus should be sent, with a draft text on Secchi's observation, approved. The Royal Hungarian Academy in Pesth to be placed on the list of institutions to receive Royal Society journals. Letter from Admiral Smyth expressing regret at being compelled to resign as Foreign Secretary, owing to ill health: the nomination of Council and Officers to be recommended to the Society postponed until the next meeting. 100 copies of Professor W.H. Miller's paper on the Imperial Standard Pound to be printed in addition to the 100 allowed, with an additional 100 copies for the use of Government. Mr. Stanley requested Philosophical Transactions for the past five years, granted. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: the Copley Medal awarded to M. H. Milne-Edwards; the Rumford Medal awarded to M. Pasteur; a Royal Medal to Sir John Richardson; a Royal Medal to Professor William Thomson. List of wages and salaries paid to Royal Society Officers and Staff. List of bills for payment, for printing, papers, and for other goods and services. |