| 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; John Peter Gassiot; John Edward Gray; Thomas Archer Hirst; Sir Henry Holland; Henry Bence Jones; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; Sir Roderick Impey Murchison; William Odling; Sir John Rennie; William Sharpey; George Gabriel Stokes; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Documents submitted to a Committee on the Board of Trade Correspondence were read, with drafts of letters from the President and a memorandum to be transmitted to the Board in reply, full text of each entered into the minutes:
Letter from T.H. Farrer, Board of Trade, Whitehall, 25 July 1865, to Major-General Edward Sabine.
Letter from W.S. Fane, Board of Trade, Whitehall, 12 August 1865, to Major-General Edward Sabine.
Letter George B. Seyfang, Secretary, Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping, White Lion Court, Cornhill, 4 August 1865, to T.H. Farrer.
Letter from Edward Sabine, Llandovery, South Wales, 28 August 1865, to T.H. Farrer.
Letter from T.H. Farrer, Board of Trade, Whitehall, 23 October, to Major-General Edward Sabine.
Letter from T.H. Farrer, Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 24 October 1865, to Major-General Edward Sabine.
Letter from Staff-Commander Frederick John Evans, 23 October 1865, to Major-General Edward Sabine.
Letter from Staff-Commander Frederick John Evans, September 1865, to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty: with three appendices relating to compasses and iron ships.
Draft letter no. 1, from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, 2 November 1865, to T.H. Farrer: transmitting a memorandum on magnetism in iron ships.
Draft letter no. 2, from Edward Sabine, Burlington House, 2 November 1865, to T.H. Farrer.
These draft letters were read and approved. Francis Galton nominated to be a member of the committee to be appointed at the Board of Trade to examine data from meteorological observations made at sea. Letter from the Colonial Office enclosing copies of a despatch from the Governor of Victoria and a letter from the Board of Visitors giving an acount of proceedings in the Melbourne telescope. List of President, Officers and Members of Council to be recommended to the Royal Society for service in the ensuing year. Adjudication of medals: the Copley Medal awarded to Michel Chasles for researches in pure geometry; a Royal Medal to Joseph Prestwich for cotributions to geological science; a Royal Medal to Archibald Smith, for paper on magnetism in ships. Nomination of auditors for the Treasurer's accounts. £15 added to the yearly wages of Mrs. Hux as housekeeper. Proceedings to be presented to the Compass-Observaory at Cronstadt. Applications for copies of Philosophical Transactions and Proceedings from the Boston Natural History Society, the Academy of Sciences of Brussels, and from the Entomological Society of Paris, acceded to. Letter from George D. Gibb who was engaged in a work on British medals, requesting to have copies struck in bronze from medals conferred by the Royal Society: complied with for the Rumford and Copley Medals, the dies of which are in the Society's possession. List of salaries and wages to be paid to Officers and Staff of the Royal Society. Bill to be paid for stitching and binding.
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