Description | Present at the meeting: the Earl of Rosse, President, in the chair; Colonel Sabine; Mr Christie; Mr Bell; Captain Smyth; Mr Bennett; Sir B Brodie; Sir Philip Egerton; Dr Forbes; Dr Hall; Dr Mantell; Mr Solly; Lord Wrottesley
Read and confirmed minutes of previous meeting
Mr Miller On the Meteorology of the Lake District. Postponed Mr Huxley On the anatomy and Physiology of Salpa and Pyrosama. Postponed Dr Letheby On the discovery in the Fallopian Tube of an ovule or its remains. Postponed Professor Owen On the Megatherium. Postponed Professor Graham Additional observations on the Diffusion of Liquid. To be printed Mr Goodman Researches into the identity of the Existence of forces, Light, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism. Postponed Sir W Snow Harris On Induced and other Magnetic Forces. Postponed Mr Brooke On the automatic registration of Magnetometers and Meteorological Instruments by means of Photography - No. IV. Postponed Colonel Sabine On the annual variation of the Magnetic declination at different periods of the day. To be printed Mr Joule On an Air Engine. Postponed Mr Lowe On the mean Temperature of Highfield House. Postponed Mr Broadhurst The human Iris; its structure and physiology. Postponed Dr Nelson On the reproduction of Ascaris Mystax. Postponed Mr Phillips Experiments made at York on the deviation of the Plane of Vibration of a Pendulum. To be printed entire in the Proceedings Colonel Sykes On the Description of the Wet Bulb Thermometer in the Deccan. Referred Mr H F Talbot On Instantaneous Photographic Images. To be printed in the Proceedings Mr Waterston On a general law of Density in Saturated Vapours. Referred Mr O'Brian Researches in Symbolical Physics. Referred Mr Newport On the Impregnation of the Ovum in the Amphibia. Referred |