| Description | Present at the meeting; Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. Vice President and Treasurer, in the chair; Dr Arnott; Mr Baily; Mr Christie; Dr Fitton; Mr Hopkins; Dr Roget; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Mr Wheatstone; Reverend R Willis
Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting
Mr Airy Explanation of the construction, positions, comparisons, and times of Observation of the Meteorological Instruments at the Royal Observatory of Greenwich. Referred
Mr Airy On the Laws of the Rise and Fall of the Tides in the River Thames. To be printed
REverend Mr Moseley On a calculating machine. Postponed
Dr MartinBarry On Fibre. Referred |