Description | Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Children; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Galloway; Mr Graham; Sir John Herschel; Mr Kiernan; Mr Lubbock; Mr Rennie; Dr Roget; Dr Royle; Captain Smyth; Dr Todd; Mr Wheatstone; Reverend W Whewell
Read and confirmed minutes of last meeting
Mr T Bell Dynamical Researches. Postponed Mr Hopkins On the state of teh interior of the Earth. Postponed Mr Young On the curvature of surfaces. Postponed Mr Jellicoe On the Law of Human Mortality. Referred Mr Hopkins On the state of the interior of the Earth 2nd Memoir. Referred Mr Necker On the molecular constitution of crystals. Referred Mr Haggard Experiments made on a piece of Pena Silver, as to its capability of holding water. To be printed in the proceedings Mr Penny On the application of the conversion of Cholrates and Nitrates into Chlorides and of Chlorides into Nitrates etc. Referred Mr W F Talbot Some account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing etc. To be printed in the proceedings. |