| 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: James Alderson; George Busk; Sir George Everest; John Peter Gassiot; John Edward Gray; Thomas Archer Hirst; Sir Henry Holland; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; William Odling; William Pole; 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. Letter from T.H. Farrer, Board of Trade, Whitehall, 26 May 1865, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: following the death of Admiral Robert Fitzroy and referring to previous correspondence of 1855 and succeeding events in meteorology; the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade request the Royal Society's opinion on how far meteorological science has progressed and the future of the Meteorological Department; the communication referred to a committee for a report. Letter from William Spottiswoode, 30 May 1865, to William Sharpey, full text entered into the minutes: at the request of Mrs. Boole he sends a parcel of her husband, George Boole's papers; the manuscripts were accepted with thanks. The Reverend T.P. Kirkman given permission to consult and take a copy of his paper on Polyedra. Letter from Colonel Starchey requesting to examine and possibly borrow Simla meteorological observations: acceded to, but the papers to be secured by binding first. Philosophical Transactions granted to the Library of the Faculty of Sciences of the Academy of Bordeaux. The application for publications by the Melbourne Public Library was not acceded to, since access to copies in Melbourne University Library were available to the public. Numbers of Proceedings were granted to the Library of Trinity College Dublin. Application from the Secretary of St. George's Rifle Corps for use of the Great Hall in Burlington House, granted. |