| 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: Sir George Back; the Reverend John Barlow; Thomas Bell; William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Arthur Henfrey; Colonel Henry James; William Hallows Miller; John Percy; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; Charles Wheatstone; the Reverend William Whewell; John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley; the President, Benjamin Collins Brodie in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. List of candidates proposed and seconded for Royal Society Medals, with brief citations. Mr. Gassiot reported that the sum of £2,149 15s. had been received by the bankers for the Scientific Relief Fund. Motion by Mr. Bell, that as several Fellows had expressed doubts about the administration of the Scientific Relief Fund by the President and Council, further consideration on the matter should be postponed: an amendment proposed by Lord Wrottesley, to create a committee to report on the matter carried; Council to be summoned in October to consider their report. Henry John Carter, Thomas Sterry Hunt, and Sir Robert Schomburgk received an extension of time for admission to the Fellowship, being overseas. Letter from Mr. Glaisher recommending that the water barometer still at Somerset House should be removed to the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, where it might be of service to meteorological science, and reinstalled by Glaisher; agreed that the barometer to be presented to the Directors of the Crystal Palace. |