Description | Present at the meeting: John William Lubbock, Esq Vice PResident and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Galloway; Mr Graham; Mr Owen; Mr Phillips; Dr Roget
Read and confirmed minute of the last meeting
Mr Smee On the structure of Normal and adventitious Bones. Archives Mr Gulliver On the Blood - corpuscles of the Genus Cervus. Archives Mr L Howard On certain variations of the mean height of the Barometer, from 1815 to 1823. Postponed Reverend B Powell On the theory of the dark bands formed in the solar spectrum from patial interception of transparent plates. Withdrawn Sir Charles Bell On the Nervous System. To be printed Mr Johnston On the constitution of the Resins: Part 4. To be printed Reverend W Walton Extracts from a Meteorological Journal kept at Allenhed, Northumberland. Archives Mr Kater Description of an Astronomical Clock, invented by the late Captain Kater. To be printed Dr Martin Barry Researches in Embryology: third series. To be printed Professor Schoenbein On the Odour accompanying electricity etc. Archives Mr L Howard TAbles of the variation, thro' a cycle of nine years, of the mean height of th Barometer, mean temperature, and depth of rain as connected with the prevaililng winds etc. Postponed Mr Hodgkinson Experimental researches into the strength of pillars of cast iron and other materials. To be printed Register of Tides at Port Arthur, from August 1838 to July 1839. Archives Dr John Davy Notice relative to the form of Blood - particles of the Orinthoryncus Hystrix. Archives Mr Jefferys On the solution of Silica by Steam. Archives Lietenant Colonel Yorke Remarks on electrochemical equivalents and, on a supposed discrepancy, between some of them, and the atomic weight of some bodies as deduced from the theory of Somorphiom. Archives Mr J A Lloyd Second series of approximate deductons made from about 80,000 Observations taken during the years 1836, 1837 and 1838 at Port Louis Observatory, Mauritius, 4 times a day. Archives Dr Martin Barry On the Blood, etc. To be printed Dr Kane Contributions to the chemnical history of Archil and of Litmus. To be printed Colonel Reid Reports on the Weather; and on the Meteorological Phenomena at Bermuda. Archives Lord Oxmantown Experiments on the Reflecting Telescope. To be printed Mr Airy Explanation of an apparent new Polarity in Light. To be printed Mr Smee On the Ferro - sesquicyunuret of Potassium. Archives Mr Hunt On the influence of Iodine in rendering several argentine compounds spread on paper, sensitive to light etc. To be printed Major General Lindsay Hourly Observations of the Barometer and Thermometer made at Sea. Archives Mr Johnstone On the Constitution of Piyotite etc. Postponed Mr Johnston On the Constitution of th Resins: Part 5. To be printed Reverend W Whewell Researches on the Tides: 12th series - with a note. To be printed Dr M Barry Additional Observations to 3rd series of Researches in Embryology. To be printed Mr De Morgan Description of calculating Machine. Archives Mr Bowman On the Minute Structure and Movement of Voluntary Muscles. To be printed |