Description | Present at the meeting: Sir John William Lubbock, Bart Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Airy; Mr Brande; Mr Christie; Dr Roget; Major Sabine; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Reverend R Willis
Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting
Mr L Howard Tables of the variation, thro' a cycle of nine years of the mean heights of the barometer, mean temperature, and depth of rain as connected with the prevailing winds etc. Postponed Mr Airy On the theoretical explanation of an apparent new Polarity in Light. Supplemental paper. To be printed Captain Norton Description of a Percussion shell, to explode at the bottom of the sea. Archives Mr Wharton Jones Memorandum - On the Ova of Man and Mummiferous Animals etc. Archives Mr Wheatstone Description of the Electro Magnetic clock. Postponed Dr Martin Barry Memorandum. Archives Dr Martin Barry Supplementary note to the 3rd series of Researches in Embryology - A contribution to the Physiology of Cells. To be printed |