| Description | Present at the meeting: The President; Dr Blagden; Read Dr Hamilton; Read Mr Harper; Read Mr Maty; Sr W Musgrave; Joseph Planta Esq; George Steevens Esq; Samuel Wegg Esq
Mr John Hunters Lecture on Muscular Motion was given up by Mr Maty. Mr de Luc's paper on Aerial refraction remains in his possession, as do two drawings belonging to Mr Choston's paper, and one drawing belonging to Mr King's paper giving an account of a petrifaction in Mr Matys
1779
18 March Mr Davila Account of a new Species of Bark from Santa Fee. Postponed
24 June Astronomer Royal An improvement of the prismatic Micrometer. Postponed
1780
13 January Mr Frazer New Experiments on Vegetation. Postponed
4 May Mr Anderson Account of a process for obtaining a very fine kind of venous spirits from potatoes. Postponed
1 June Earl Stanhope Observations on the Moots [?] of adffected [?] Equations. Printed
1781
22 February Dr Blanc Account of the Hurricane at Barbados. Not printed
15 March Mr de la Frohe Meteorological Journals kept at W and one at Omah. Abridged
22 March Mr Herschel Account of a new Comet. Postponed
29 March Mr Herschel Supplement to the account of the Comet. Postponed
29 March Mr Thompson Experiments on Gunpowder. Postponed |