| 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; Jacob Lockhart Clarke; John Evans; Captain Douglas Galton; John Peter Gassiot; William Huggins; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Andrew Crombie; 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. List of President, Officers and Council to be recommended to the Fellowship for election to serve in the ensuing year. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Sir Charles Wheatstone for researches in acoustics, optics, electricity and magnetism; a Royal Medal to Alfred Russell Wallace for his labours in practical and theoretical zoology; a Royal Medal to the Reverend George Salmon for researches in analytical geometry and the theory of surfaces; and the Rumford Medal awarded to Dr. Balfour Stewart for researches in heat and light. Nomination of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts. Resolved that the President express thanks to Colonel Walker of the Indian Survey for the interest he has taken in promoting the scientific objectives of the Royal Society and that he is asked to convey thanks to Lieutenant Herschel and Captain Haig: the President to communicate with Walker on the future use of instruments now in the hands of Lieutenant Herschel. The President requested to thank Lord Stanley for the communication of an account of the solar eclipse on the coast of Borneo by J. Pope Hennessey. Dr. Carpenter presented a preliminary report of the dredging expedition in the steamer Lightning: this to be read at an ordinary meeting and printed in Proceedings. The President to convey the thanks of himself and Council to the Admiralty for aid in carrying out the dredging operation. Philosophical Transactions to be presented to the Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen to Haarlem. Letter from W. Beckett Denison giving thanks for the loan of pictures to the Leeds Exhibition of Works of Art. List of salaries and wages paid to Officers and Staff of the Royal Society. |