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RefNo	CMB/90/3/105
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers
Date	5 July 1838
Description	Present at the meeting: Francis Baily Esq. Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Dr Bostock; Mr Children; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Dr Roget; Mr Travers; Mr Wheatstone Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting Sir E Home - Magnetical Observations made in the West Indies [Caribbean], on the Coasts of Brazil and North America. Postponed Reverend J B Reade - An inquiry into a new theory of earthy bases of Vegetable Tissues. Archives Mr Ivory - On the Theory of Astronomical Refractions. Postponed Reverend William Whewell Researches on the Tides - ninth series. To be printed Mr Barry - Researches in Ovology. Referred Mr Ivory - Theory of the Equilibrium of incompressible Fluids at liberty. Postponed Mr Murchison - Description of a self registering Thermometer and Barometer invented by the late James Coggan, Esq. Archives Mr Hogg - On the action of light on the colour of the River of Sponge. Referred Reverend Mosley - On the geometrical forms of turbinated and discoid shells. Referred Mr Frodsham - On the decussation of fibres at the junction of the medulla spinalis with the medulla Oblongata. Referred Mr Wheatstone - Contributions to the Physiology of Vision Part 1. Referred Mr Faraday - Experimental Researches in Electricity - 14th series. To be printed Mr Watson - On the relative attractions of Sulphuric Acid for Water etc. Referred Mr Tomes - On the structure of the Teeth etc. Referred Dr Davy - Experiments on the blood in connection with the theory of respiration. Referred Mr Rigg - On the evolution of Nitrogen during the growth of Plants. Referred Mr Rigg - Experimental enquiry into the influence of Nitrogen on the growth of Plants. Referred Mr Bell - Dynamical Researches. Referred Reverend B Powell - Remarks on the theory of the dispersion of Light. To be printed Mr Gulliver - Researches on Suppuration. Referred
Extent	4p
Format	Manuscript
AccessStatus	Open

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