| 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: Benjamin Guy Babington; Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie; George Bowdler Buckton; William Benjamin Carpenter; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; William Fairbairn; Captain Douglas Galton; William Hopkins; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; James Paget; Joseph Prestwich; William Sharpey; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, Major-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Report of the Government Grant Committee, in the form of minutes of the meeting of 6 March 1862, full text entered into the minutes: list of applications for grants, discussed and a provisional list of grants awarded to be confirmed by Council; the report approved. Letter from Sir John Herschel, recommending that a catalogue of nebulae which he had prepared and reduced to the epoch of 1830 should be reduced to an epoch in advance of the present time, and requesting a small sum to defray costs: £20 from the Donation Fund to be placed at the disposal of Sir John Herschel. Letter from Warren De La Rue recommending that a grant of £25 be made to allow Mr. Paul Pretch to extend his experiments in a process of printing from electrotype copper plates obtained from photography, granted. A copy of the Catalogue of the Royal Society Library to be presented to the Library of Queen's College, Cork. M.C.R. Despretz, F. Ernst Neumann and Ernst S. Weber to be recommended for election as Foreign Members. The Treasurer authorised to change the Society's bank account to the West Branch of the Bank of England, Burlington Gardens. Letter from B.J. Thomson, Secretary of the Mercantile Marine Association of Liverpool, submitting a proposal on making the resources of the British Merchant Navy available for scientific purposes and requesting advice from Council on how to bring this into effect: the reply to be that the Association should enter into correspondence with Admiral Fitzroy to promote such objectives. Letter from the Honorary Secretary of the Social Science Association requesting that accommodation granted at Burlington House might be extanded to 14 June, granted. List of grants of Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings to foreign academies. Bill for payment for lithography. |