| 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; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; Arthur Henfrey; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; Major-General Edward Sabine; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; Charles Wheatstone; 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. The President reported that he had granted leave to H.M. Civil Service Commissioners to use the Great Hall for Indian Civil Service Examinations. The seal of the Royal Society was affixed to a new lease for the Royal Society's estate at Acton to Mr. James Stevens, full text of the provisons entered into the minutes. Letter from Dr. W. Farr stating that Scheutz's calculating engine was now in operation for the General Register Office, and the Registrar-General desired that Council of the Royal Society should appoint a committee to report on the first machine, and on a second, constructed by Messrs. Donkin: a committee was appointed. Philosophical Transactions part 1 for 1851 granted to Messrs Schlagintweit, now engaged in publishing magnetical observations made in India. Mr. Gassiot reported that the sum paid to the bankers on account of the Scientific Relief Fund was now £2,564 15s. Dr. Sharpey stated that he had been requested by Mr. Bell to give notice of a motion on the Scientific Relief Fund for the meeting on 20 October, full text entered into the minutes. On the motion of Sir Rodereick Murchison, it was resolved that the Royal Geographical Society should hold their meeting in the Great Hall in the ensuing session. List of bills for payment, for coals and lithography. |