| 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: the Reverend John Barlow; Thomas Bell; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Philip Hardwick; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; John Percy; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Archibald Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; Charles Wheatstone; the Reverend William Whewell; John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley; the President, Benjamin Collins Brodie in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of salaries paid to Officers and Staff of the Royal Society. List of bills for payment, for printing, engraving, and for other expenses. Draft of a reply to the letter of Sir George Clerk, by the Treasurer, full text entered into the minutes: the publication of magnetic observations from Simla, Madras [Chennai] and Singapore should go ahead, given the cost of the observatories at those locations; the observations should be published in full, not in abstract; the cost of printing would be great, but this might be confined to the abstracts and supporting matter, with the observations being provided by careful manuscript copies being deposited in accessible libraries; General Boileau might understake the conduct of the work. Report of the Committee appointed to consider the Scientific Relief Fund, full text entered into the minutes: providing eleven recommendations for the administration of the fund, including the formation of a Scientific Relief Committee, with rules on its conduct and membership; the report was adopted, following one amendment. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Anniversary Meeting for service in the ensuing year. Dr. Whewell, with consent, altered the terms of his resolution proposing James Forbes as a Copley Medal candidate. The Copley Medal awarded to Professor Wilhelm Eduard Weber. Royal Medals awarded to George Bentham and Arthur Cayley. |