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RefNo	CMB/90/3/146
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers
Date	4 May 1843
Description	Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Baily; Dr Martin Barry; Mr Brown; Mr Christie; Dr Lee; Mr Pepys; Dr Roget; Mr Wheatstone Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting Lieutenant Lefroy On the influence of the Moon on the atmospheric pressure, as deduced from the observations of the barometer made at the Magnetic Observatory at St Helena. Postponed Colonel Harding Wind Table, from observations taklen at the summit of the Rock of Gibraltar. Postponed Mr Rainey Experimental inquiry into the cause of the ascent and continued motion of the Sap etc. Archives Dr Carpenter On the minute structure of the skeletons of hard parts of teh Invertebrata. Postpned (the plates not before the Council) Lieutenant Gillies Variation of the Magnetic Needle as observed at Washington in July 1840. Meteorological Archives Mr Hall On the structure and mode of action of the Iris. Withdrawn Dr Martin Barry On Fissiparous Generation. Postponed Mr Drach On the diurnal temperature of the Earth's surface etc. Postponed Dr Willils On the special functions of the skin. Referred Mr Smee On the cause of the reduction of Metals from solutions of their salts by Voltaic Circuit. Archives Dr Willis On the import and office of the Lymphatic system of Vessels. Referred Sir John Herschel Notice of an extraordinary luminous appearance seen in the heavens on the 17 March 1843. Postponed Mr Wilson REsearches into the structure nd development of a newly discovered Paracitic Animalcule of the human skin. Referred Mr Tate On factorial expressions and the summation of Algebraic series. Referred Captain Grover Notice of a Comet. Archives Dr Evans On the general and minute structure of the Spleen in Man and Animals. Referred Mr Newport On the structure and development of the Nervous and circulatory Systems etc. Referred
Extent	3p
Format	Manuscript
AccessStatus	Open

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