| 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; the Reverend John Barlow; Thomas Bell; Arthur Cayley; William Farr; Sir Henry Holland; Thomas Henry Huxley; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; Thomas Webster; Alexander William Williamson; the Reverend Robert Willis; Sir William Page Wood; 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. The Secretary read a letter written to Colonel Lindsay stating the reasons for not complying with his request, but if no other suitable place could be found for Mr. Peel's lecture to the Rifle Corps, Council would reconsider: following a reply from Lindsay, saying that the Corps had been granted permission to exercise in the grounds of Burlington House, the Meeting Room request would be granted, but setting no precedent. Letter from John Ashton Bostock, offering an electrical machine constructed by Jospeh Priestley and bequeathed to his father, John Bostock, by Dr. Robert Cappe of York, authenticated by his will: the gift accepted. Mr. Fairbairn appointed Bakerian Lecturer insteasd of J.C. Maxwell, who is ineligible, not being a Fellow. List of candidates for election to the Fellowship, to be recommended to the Royal Society. |