| Description | Present at the meeting: His Royal Highness the President in the chair; Dr Bostock; Mr Children; Mr Daniell; Mr Pepys; Dr Roget; Dr Royle; Captain Smyth; Mr Trasvers; Mr Wheatstone; Reverend W Whewell
Read and confirmed minutes of last meeting
Sir Everard Home - Magnetical Observations made in the West Indies [Caribbean] on the Coasts of Brazil and North America Postponed
Mr Bowring - Proposal for a new method of determining the Longitude etc. Archives
Reverend J B Reade - An inquiry into a new theory of Earthy Bases of Vegetable Tissues. Postponed
Mr Bunt - Description of a new Tide Gauge. To be printed
Captain Newbold - On the Regar or Black Cotton Soil of India. Archives
Mr Faraday - Experimental Researches in Electricity - 13th series. To be printed
Mr Thomson - An account of a line of Levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Euphrates: with Geological and Botanical Notes by Mr Ainsworth. Referred |