| 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: George Burrows; Heinrich Debus; Peter Martin Duncan; George Carey Foster; Francis Galton; John Peter Gassiot; Joseph Dalton Hooker; William Huggins; George Murray Humphry; John Gwyn Jeffreys; Sir John Lubbock; William Hallowes Miller; William Sharpey; Charles William Siemens; Henry John Stephen Smith; William Spottiswoode; George Gabriel Stokes; John Tyndall; the President, General Sir Edward Sabine, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Two letters from Ralph Palmer, Public Schools Commission, 32 Abingdon Street, Westminster, 2 August 1871 and 31 August 1871, to the Secretary, and to the President and Council of the Royal Society, full text of both entered into the minutes: approval has been given for establishing the new constitutions of Winchester, Shrewsbury, Charterhouse and Harrow Schools, with the exception of one statute, and one member to each governing body should be elected by President and Council of the Royal Society; the printed copies of statutes were laid before Council and this was followed by a list of representatives appointed to each school. Adjudication of Royal Society Medals, recommendations discussed and adjourned. Letter from J. Cosmo Melvill, India Office, 20 October 1871, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the death of Captain Basevi and arrangements to complete his series of pendulum observations; Council express their regret at the news and the resolution to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for India. The fifth volume of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers was laid before Council. Library Committee report on the disposal of duplicate books and pamphlets. Thomas Tunstall and his wife had been engaged to fill the places of Hall-Porter and Housekeeper. Letter from M. Delaunay requesting the grant of volumes of Philosophical Transactions for the Observatory in Paris, granted. The Secretary reported the receipt of a second letter from Dr. Carpenter, urging expediency in making arrangements for a cicumnavigation expedition: a committee apppointed to consider what plan of operations to recommend, including expense, for report to Council on a scheme to be submitted to H.M. Government. List of bills for payment, for printing, lithography, and for other expenses. |