| Description | Present at the meetin: the President in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Gilbert; Mr Herschel; Captain Kater; Dr Wollaston; Dr Young
A preamble to the Report agreed and listed.
Includes the comment that ' the Astronomer Royal stands acqutted of any culpable inattention to the immediate duties of his important office. ' However, ' A certain degree of negligence is too apparent on the part of some assistants especially with regard to the registers of the heights of the Barometer and Thermometers in consequence of which an error of nearly a Second has been introduced into the single results of some few of the observations. ' And finally ' That notwithstanding these occasional inaccuracies, the Greenwich observations still appear to remain as much unrivalled for their utility as they have always been hitherto esteemed, and that those which relate to the Transits, remain free form the slightest imputation. '
Resolved a copy of the report of the Committee preceded by the above preamble shoudl be forwarded to the Admiralty, with a copy of the lettr of Mr Lee to the President of 28 February 1825 and of Mr Pond's report to the Council on the subject and correspondence between Mr Pond and Mr Lee. Also that a copy of the report of the Committee as above should be forwarded to the Astronomer Royal.
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