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RefNoCMP/3/58
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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date19 February 1863
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: Benjamin Guy Babington; George Bowdler Buckton; William Benjamin Carpenter; Warren De La Rue; Joseph Dalton Hooker; Captain Douglas Galton; Robert Godwin-Austen; John Lubbock; James Clerk Maxwell; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Richard Owen; William Sharpey; Henry John Stephen Smith; George Gabriel Stokes; James Joseph Sylvester; the Reverend Robert Willis; the President, Major-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Professor Owen, as a new Member of Council, made and subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath. Report from John Oakley, 10 Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, 27 January 1863, to the Treasurer of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the condition of the Royal Society's lands at Mablethorpe and possible tenants: the seal of the Royal Society was affixed to copies of a notice to quit and give up occupation to be served on the widow and executors of the late tenant. Report of the Government Grant Committee, in the form of minutes of the meeting of 18 February 1863, full text entered into the minutes: list of applications for grants, with recommendations for awards, confirmed by Council. Report of the Committee on the Rumford Medal, full text entered into the minutes: noting alterations to the designs of Mr. Wiener, draft inscriptions and a wreath motif to be approved by Mr. Westmacott; the report adopted and the work to be executed by Mr. Wiener for £100 to be defrayed from the Rumford Medal Fund. Report of the Library Committee on progress with the Catalogue of Scientific Memoirs and an application for £200 to complete work for the present year, adopted. The Foreign Secretary noted a second vacancy on the list of Foreign Members caused by the death of Carl Rumker: list of candidates for Foreign Membership, from which two would be selected. £120 from the Donation Fund to be placed at the disposal of the Chairman of the Kew Committee to defray the cost of the exposition of Kew instruments in the International Exhibition. Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings granted to the Library of the Faculte de Medecine de Montpelier. Bill for payment for chromolithography.
Extent6p; pp.144-149
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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