| 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; George Bowdler Buckton; William Benjamin Carpenter; Captain Douglas Galton; William Robert Grove; John Lubbock; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; James Paget; Joseph Prestwich; 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. Adjudication of medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Thomas Graham for memoirs on the diffusion of liquids; the Rumford Medal awarded to Professor Kirchoff of Heidelberg for research on the fixed lines of the solar spectrum; a Royal Medal to the Reverend Dr. T.R. Robinson for the Armagh Catalogue of Stars and other contributions; a Royal Medal to Professor Alexander W. Williamson for researches on compound ethers. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Society for service in the ensuing year. Nomination of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts. Letter from John Phillips, Oxford, 4 November 1862, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: announcing the sum of £100 placed at the disposal of Council of the British Association to add to outbuildings at Kew Observatory to house Mr. De La Rue's photoheliograph: requesting the co-operation of the Ryal Society in completing and proving the instrument. List of bills for payment, for book-cases, painting and for other services. |