| 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: Sir George Back; Thomas Bell; Arthur Cayley; William Farr; Sir Henry Holland; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Hallows Miller; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; Thomas Webster; Alexander William Williamson; the Reverend Robert Willis; John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley; Colonel Philip Yorke; the President, Benjamin Collins Brodie in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Volumes of Philosophical Transactions back to 1850 granted to Silliman's Journal. Letter from Colonel C.H. Lindsay requesting permission for Mr. Peel to give lectures on rifle shooting in the Great Hall of Burlington House; the Secretary to communicate with him on the subject. The list of candidates for Fellowship was considered and adjourned to the next meeting. |