| Description | Present at the Committee for ascertaining the length of the Seconds - Pendulum: The President in the Chair; Mr Brande; Mr Browne; Mr Combe; Sir H C Englefield; Mr Pond; Mr Troughton; Dr Wollaston; Dr Young
' Resolved, that Mr Davies Gilbert be requested to procure the loan of the Standard Measure in possession of the House of Commons, in order to compare it with the Metres to be brought to this Country by Mr Biot; and obtain permission to have the said Standard brought to the Royal Society's Apartmaents at Somerset House for that purpose. ' |