| 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: Lionel Smith Beale; William Bowman; Commander Frederick John Owen Evans; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; John Edward Gray; Thomas Archer Hirst; Sir Henry Holland; William Allen Miller; William Hallows Miller; William Odling; Sir John Rennie; William Sharpey; Warington Wilkinson Smyth; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; Count Paul Edmund de Strzelecki; Sir William Page Wood; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Letter from John Gregory, 27 Green Street, Park Lane, 15 March 1866, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: offering to present a collection of manuscripts relating to Isaac Newton to the Royal Society, including sheets of Principia Mathematica; accepted with special thanks. List of candidates for Foreign Membership of the Royal Society, of whom three may be nominated at a future meeting. Report of the Government Grant Committee in the form of minutes of the meeting held on 14 March 1866, full text entered into the minutes: a list of applications, with discussion, and a provisional list of successful grantees; the report was adopted and the grants approved by Council. £40 from the Scientific Relief Fund granted to the President of the Astronomical Society for the benefit of an applicant. A copy of the Catalologue of the Royal Society Library presented to the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. Professor Tyndall granted the loan of woodblocks from his paper on calorescence. Six volumes of Proceedings granted to the Zoological Society. Royal Society journals to be presented as exchanges with the National Institute of Geneva, the Essex Institute at Salem, the Zeitschrift fur Biologie of Munich, and with Professor Donders. Letter from George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal, 20 February 1866, to Professor Stokes: with a draft reply, full text entered into the minutes, acknowledging Airy's withdrawal of sentences which may appear offensive, but expressing regret. Bill for payment, for lithography. |