Record

RefNoCMP/3/62
LevelItem
TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date30 April 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; Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton; Captain Douglas Galton; Robert Godwin-Austen; Joseph Dalton Hooker; 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; Charles Wheatstone; 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. List of candidates for Foreign Membership, with three new names added for possible election. A short list of six names were then proposed and at ballot, Ernst E. Kummer and J.J.S. Steenstrup were selected to be put to the ballot at a future meeting.
Extent2p; pp.157-158
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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