| 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; Joseph Dalton Hooker; John Lubbock; James Clerk Maxwell; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; William Sharpey; 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. The seal of the Royal Society was affixed to the diplomas of new Foreign Members. The corporate seal was added to a power of attorney to enable the Society's bankers to sell stock to the amount of £2,000. Report from the Society's solicitors, Few and Company, Covent Garden, 13 August 1863, full text entered into the minutes: on the Acton Estate, and a dispute between various landowners (the Royal Society, the Goldsmith's Company, and Messrs. Wood, Brett, and Tubbs) and the Lord of the Manor, Mr. Church, concerning pasturage rights to Old Oak Common. Letter from Peter Le Neve Foster, Society of Arts, John Street, Adelphi, London, 13 October 1863, to Walter White, full text entered into the minutes: requesting the loan of the Meeting Room in Burlington House for a general meeting to elect the Prince of Wales as President of the Society of Arts, granted. Letter from the Astronomer Royal, requesting permission to make extracts from Council Minutes relating to the Royal Observatory: granted, to a person nominated by Mr. Airy. The Foreign Secretary announced a vacancy in the Foreign Membership, occasioned by the death of Professor Eilhard Mitscherlich of Berlin. A donation of two guineas was made to the Parochial Schools of Mablethorpe. The Proceedings granted to the Anthropological Society, as an exchange: and to the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers. List of bills for payment, for printing, lithography, and for other services. |