| 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: John Couch Adams; James Alderson; George Busk; Sir George Everest; John Peter Gassiot; John Edward Gray; Sir Henry Holland; Henry Bence Jones; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; William Odling; William Pole; the Reverend Bartholomew Price; Sir John Rennie; William Sharpey; Edward Henry Stanley, Lord Stanley; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, Major-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Resolved that Chapter 1 Section 4 of the Statutes was to be repealed: the draft of a new statute relating to the election of Royal Fellows was read and agreed, full text entered into the minutes. List of candidates for election to the Fellowship to be recommended at the next Annual Meeting on 1 June. The Treasurer reported that the platinum metre lent to the Ordnance Survey Office had been returned in good order. Letter from Colonel Henry James, Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 4 April 1865, to Professor William Hallows Miller, Foreign Secretary, the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the measurement comparison between the Royal Society's metre and the true metre, according to M. Arago. Dr. Aiken's letter requesting £40 from the Donation Fund was read: a reply to be sent to enquire whether any apparatus constructed by means of a grant from the British Association was available for Dr. Aiken's purpose. |