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CMP - Council Minutes, Printed
- 3 - Minutes of meetings of Council of the Royal Society, volume 3

RefNo	CMP/3/100
Level	Item
Title	Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date	28 June 1866
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: Lionel Smith Beale; William Bowman; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Thomas Archer Hirst; Sir Henry Holland; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Sir John Rennie; William Sharpey; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Sir William Page Wood; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. The seal of the Royal Society was affixed to the diplomas of new Foreign Members. Mr. Bowman's resolution on the distribution of papers in advance of their reading was read was agreed to. Resolved by ballot that the repeal of Chapter III Section 2 of the Statutes would be proposed at another meeting. Draft statutes were read on admission money and annual payments of Fellows' subscriptions, agreed upon and to be read at another meeting. Archdeacon Pratt and Dr. Hector were granted an extension of time for admission to the Fellowship. Letter from George Busk, Secretary of the Linnean Society, 21 June 1866, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: enquiring whether Council would approve the use of the Linnean Society's rooms in Burlington House by the Entomological Society, acceded to. The President stated that he had approved the use of the Great Hall by St. George's Volunteer Rifle Corps. Letter from Charles Murchison, 79 Wimpole Street, London, 6 June 1866, to William Sharpey, Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: offering a bust of the late Hugh Falconer to the Royal Society, on behalf of the Falconer Memorial Fund; the bust accepted with thanks. Drs. Fagge and Stevenson were granted the loan of their paper on physiological tests for organic poisons from the Society's archives. £30 from the Donation Fund was granted to Mr. C. Schorlemmer for his chemical researches; £50 from the Donation Fund was granted to Dr. Maddox for the application of photography to show microscopic objects. Letter from J.S.N. Hennessey, Trigonometrical Survey of India, Denra Doon, 13 February 1866, to Edward Sabine, full text entered into the minutes: offering to undertake scientific experiments and describing the hill station at Mussorie and his situation there; noting that Sabine had suggested the use of a spectroscope and reporting that Captain Basevi's pendulum measurements were proceeding well; Council ordered that the letter should be printed. All books belonging to the Royal Society to be returned before 31 July and none loaned out in August. Leave of absence granted to the Assistant Secretary. List of bills for payment, for legal expenses and coals.
Extent	7p; pp.322-327
Format	Printed
PhysicalDescription	On paper
AccessStatus	Open

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