| 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; Sir Rowland Hill; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; William Sharpey; Colonel William James Smythe; George Gabriel Stokes; 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. The seal of the Royal Society was affixed to the diplomas of Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm Bischoff, Rudolph J.E. Clausius, Hugo von Mohl, and Samuel Heinrich Schwabe as Foreign Members. The selection of candidates for Fellowship was considered and adjourned. £30 from the Donation Fund was placed with Dr. Carpenter for the purchase of a specimen of the West Indian Pentacrinus. Letter from J.C. Walker, Dehra Doon, via Bombay, n.d., to Edward Sabine, full text entered into the minutes: sending a copy of the letter from the Government of India, approving of proposals; he hopes that the weather will favour observations and he is making enquiries about the climate in the line of the eclipse, to increase chances of success. Letter from J. Geoghegan, Under Secretary to the Government of India, Fort William, 21 February 1868, to the Superintendent of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, full text entered into the minutes: acknowledging the receipt of a letter requesting permission to use officers of the Survey to make observations of the total solar eclipse of 17-18 August and to sanction expenditure; the Governor-General approves of the arrangements and will do all in his power to facilitate full and accurate observations. Letter from David Forbes, requesting copies of Philosophical Transactions 1858-1862 not applied for during his absence in South America, granted. Letter from Mr. Le Sueur, Astronomical Observer at Melborne, requesting parts of Philosophical Transactions, granted. The Secretary stated that permission had been granted to the Committee of the Cambridge Local Examinations to hold distribution of certificates in the Meeting Room. List of bills for payment, for paper. |