RefNoCMB/90/3/1
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers
Date14 February 1828
DescriptionPresent at the meeting; the President in the chair; Mr Bailey; Captain Beaufort; Dr Buckland; Lord Colchester; Dr Foster; Dr Goodenough; Mr Guillenard; Mr Herschel; Captain Kater; Dr Paris; Dr Roget; Captain Sabine; Dr Wollaston; Dr Young

Read and confirmed minutes of previous meeting

1827
13 December Sir George Gibbs On On Alimentary Substances. Postponed
20 December Dr George Pearson's Bakerian Lecture - On the Absorption of Charcoal in the Lungs. Postponed
20 December Mr James Dunlop's Catalogue of Southern Nebulae and Clusters. To be printed
1828
10 January Sir G S Gibbes - On the Life of Plants and Animals. Postponed
10 January Captian Henry Foster - On the Comparative magnetic intensity of a horizontal needle at the bottom and on the tops of Mountains at Port Bower [?] and Spitzbergen. Withdrawn (Edward Sabine) 'To be printed' crossed out
17 January Dr G Mole - On Captain Parry's and Lieutenant Foster's experiments on the velocity of sound. To be printed
24 January Sir Everard Home - On the Structure and use of the Capsulae Renales. Withdrawn
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FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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