| 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 Frederic Bateman; 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. Application from Dr. W.A. Miller for the loan of copper plates from his and Mr. Huggins's paper on spectra, granted. List of candidates for Fellowship of the Royal Society to be recommended at the Annual Meeting for the purpose. Resolved by ballot that F.C. Donders of Utrecht, G.F.B. Riemann of Gottingen and Gustav Rose of Berlin be recommended for election as Foreign Members. Lists of candidates to be considered for the award of Royal Society Medals. |