| Description | Present at the meeting: The President; Sir Robert Barker; Richard Henry Alexander Bennet; Henry Cavendish Esq; Dr Gisborne; Reverend Mr Harpur; Mr James Horsfall; Dr Hutton; Reverend Mr Maty, Secretary; Reverend Dr Maskelyne; Joseph Planta Esq Secretary; Reverend Dr Stebbing; Dr Warren; Samuel Wegg Esa
' This being an adjournment of the annual Committee for receiving the papers and Plates of the year 1779, they were given up excepting only L'Abbe Diequmaire's paper on Sea Anenomes and the plates belonging to Mr Nairne's paper on Electricity, both which Mr Maty promised to search and deliver up for with all possible speed. '
1779 March 18 - Account of a new Species of Bark from Santa Fe by Mr Davila; postponed
1779 June 24 -An Improvement of the prismatic Micrometer by the Astronomer Royal; postponed
1779 November 4 - A Farther extension of Cardan's rule by Baron Maseres; printed
1779 December 16;
1. Account of an extraordinary case of the Chief male of the Greenwich packetboat communicated by Lord Despencer; not printed
2. A Journal of the weather at Montrea Bassom, December 1778 to April 1779 by Mr Barr, communicated by Dr Saunders FRS; Abridged
1779 December 23;
11. A Letter from Sir William Hamilton to the President giving an account of the late eruption at Mount Vesuvius; printed
2. Account of a cure by Electiricity by Mr John Whitehurs FRS; not printed
3. An account of a method for the safe removal of Ship's that have been driven on Shore and damaged in their bottoms by Mr Barnard communicated by the Astronomer Royal; printed
1780 January 13;
1. New experiments on vegetation, by Mr Frazer; postponed
2. Experiments on the compressibility of water, on the oculus mundi, and on a new animal acid by Professor Crell; postponed |