| 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; Commander Frederick John Owen Evans; Edward Frankland; John Hall Gladstone; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Andrew Crombie Ramsay; William Sharpey; Colonel William James Smythe; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Thomas Thomson; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Royal Society for at the Anniversary Meeting, for election to serve in the ensuing year. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Karl Ernst von Baer for discoveries in embryology and comparative anatomy; a Royal Medal to John Bennet Lawes and Joseph Henry Gilbert, for researches in agricultural chemistry; a Royal Medal to Sir William Logan, for his geological researches and map of Canada. £50 from the Scientific Relief Fund awarded to an applicant recommended by the President of the Chemical Society; £25 awarded to an applicant recommended by the President of the Royal Society. An application was read from Mr. Edwards, a photographer, for permission to photograph the Royal Society's Meeting Room, acceded to. Letter from Campbell Keir requesting to have a copy of the certificate of 8 December 1785 recommending James Keir as a Fellow of the Royal Society, granted. Professor Tyndall requested the loan of a copper plate illustrating his Philosophical Transactions paper of 1861, granted. Letter from H.W. Chisholm, 7 Old Palace Yard, 6 November 1867, to Edward Sabine, full text entered into the minutes: requesting the loan of the Royal Society's platinum troy pound, to verify the troy and bullion standards, acceded to. The Treasurer reported that Mr. Huxley had repaid to the Donation Fund the sum of £100 granted to him in February 1867. Letter from the Committee of Council of Education, thanking the Royal Society for the loan of portraits to the National Exhibition of 1867 and presenting photographs of the pictures; it was intimated that a large paper catalogue would be sent and the Committee asked for details of any portraits the Society would be willing to lend to the next year's exhibition; the Committee to be informed that the Society stood ready to lend a selection of portraits, as before. Nomination of auditors of the Treasurer's accounts. Letter from Colonel Le Couteur, who had been declared a defaulter at the last Anniversary, requesting to be readmitted to the Royal Society: the letter and Statutes to be read from the Chair at the next Ordinary Meeting. List of salaries and wages to be paid to Officers and staff of the Royal Society. Bill for payment, for kitchen sundries. |