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RefNoCMP/3/42
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date9 January 1862
DescriptionPrinted 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: John Couch Adams; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; George Bowdler Buckton; William Benjamin Carpenter; Captain Douglas Galton; John Lubbock; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; James Paget; William Sharpey; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; the President, Major-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. The President and new Members of Council made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Draft of an address of condolence to Queen Victoria, on the death of the Albert, the Prince Consort; the draft to be read to the meeting of the Royal Society that evening for the concurrence of Fellows, and then to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for presentation. Reappointment of the Library Committee, with list of members and brief terms of reference. Report of the Library Committee stating progress on the Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs, noting the discharge of one of the Assistants as a result of work completed; the committee applied for £300 for expenses, granted. Letter from the Secretary of the International Exhibition of 1862, requesting the loan of the portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, to be placed in the collection of works of British artists gallery, the request acceded to. Letter from George W. Hastings, National Association for the Promoting of Social Science, asking to be allowed to use the Great Hall and Lower Library for its annual meeting next summer and to erect temporary buildings in the garden: the request acceded to, on condition that arrangements should not interefere with the annual election of Fellows on 5 June, and on the recommendation that the Association apply to the University of London for access to the garden. Proceedings numbers to be allowed to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft of Zurich, with Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings allowed to the Academie Royale de Medecine de Belgique. Report of a Committee to consider the letter of Sir George Everest on steps to be taken in reference to Colonel Lambton's survey of an arc of meridian in India, full text entered into the minutes: with recommendations including that the whole of the dispersed accounts of survey work published by Lambdon should be gathered in one volume and that new observations with better instruments should be made. Bill for payment for legal expenses.
Extent6p; pp.107-112
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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