| 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: Frederick Augustus Abel; William Benjamin Carpenter; Arthur Cayley; Jacob Lockhart Clarke; John Evans; Captain Douglas Galton; John Peter Gassiot; John Hall Gladstone; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; John Phillips; Colonel William James Smythe; George Gabriel Stokes; Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Strange; Thomas Thomson; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Mr. Abel and Professor Phillips made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath, as new Members of Council. Leave was granted to the Earl of Rosse to postpone the time for his admission to the Fellowship. The Foreign Secretary reported the death of M. Poncelet, Foreign Member. List of possible candidates for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society, of whom four would be nominated at a future meeting of Council. The President noted that he had granted the use of the Meeting Room to the Civil Service Commission, to hold examinations. The President communicated a letter from the President of the Sociedad de Ciencias Fisicas y Naturales de Caracas, enclosing a printed report on magnetic disturbances during the November meteors, to which he had replied. Letter from Clement Swanston, 23 Old Square, Lincoln's Inn, 27 December 1867, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: his late father had not received Philosophical Transactions from 1858 and Swanston requests the unclaimed volumes, as executor; the reply to be that Statutes limit unclaimed parts to the last five years, and so Council are unable to comply. Proceedings from 1866 to be granted to the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Bordeaux as an exchange. Philosophical Transactions granted to the Library of the Faculty of Sciences of the Sorbonne, to the University of Lund, and to the Ferdinandeum of Innsbruck as exchanges. Certain Proceedings issues granted to the Societe Imperiale des Sciences Naturelles de Cherbourg, to supply deficiencies. Letter from Professor von Baer acknowledging the award of the Copley Medal. The President reported that the letter of John Winthrop lent to Professor Hirst had been returned. The Treasurer was authorised to pay a bills for the instruments sent to India, from Cooke and Sons, Troughton and Simms, and Browning. |