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TitleMinutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society
Date19 April 1866
DescriptionPrinted 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 Frederic Bateman; Lionel Smith Beale; Commander Frederick John Owen Evans; Edward Frankland; John Peter Gassiot; 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; the President, Lieutenant-General Edward Sabine, in the Chair.

Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Report from Few and Company, Covent Garden, 4 April 1866, full text entered into the minutes: on the matter of Old Oak Common and the costs of defending the right of turning out cattle on the common against Mr.Church's enclosure. Letter from T.H. Farrer, Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, 11 April 1866, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: transmitting a copy of the report made by the committee considering questions relating to the Meteorological Department. Letter from William Allen Miller, Chemical Society, 19 April 1866, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on alternating meetings in the Chemical Society's rooms in Burlington House with meetings of the Mathematical Society and requesting the Royal Society's approval of the arrangement, granted. A letter from George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal, 31 March 1866, to Professor Stokes was read. Professor Hirst was nominated a member of the Library Committee. Royal Society journals to be exchanged with the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein fur Erdkunde, with the Societe Litteraire, Scientifique et Artistique d'Apt, Vaucluse, and with the Verein fur Erdkunde in Dresden. List of bills for payment, for printing and other expenses. The selection of candidates for the Fellowship was discussed and adjourned.
Extent4p; pp.315-318
FormatPrinted
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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