| Description | Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Donkin; Sir John Lubbock; Mr R Phillips; the Reverend B Powell; Dr Roget; Major Sabine; Colonel Sykes; the Reverend R Willis
Read and confirmed the minutes fo the last meeting
Mr l Howard Tables of the variation, thro' a cycle of nine years of the mean heighth of the barometer, mean temperature, and depth of rain as connected with the prevaililng winds etc. Withdrawn [ 'for the present' crossed out]
Dr Wheatstone Description of the Electro - Magnetic clock. Postponed
Mr Newbold On the state of the Diamond Mines of Golconda. Archives
Dr Martin Barry On the Chorda Dorsalis. Referred
Dr Martin Barry On the Corpuscles of the Bolld - Part 2. Referred
Mr Joule On the production of Heat by Voltaic Electricity. Archives
Mr Blake On the action of certain Inorganic compounds, when introduced directly into the blood. Archives
Mr Grove On some Electro - Nitrogurets. Referred
Major Sabine Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism - Part 2. To be printed
Mr Hargreave On th calculation of attractions, and the figures of th Earth. Referred
Mr Mantell Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of an Iguanodon and other Saurian Remains etc. Referred
Sir John Lubbock On the Theorem of Fermat. Withdrawn
Dr John Davy Miscellaneous observations on the Torpedo. Archives
Sir David Brewster On a remarkable property of the diamond. Referred |