Description | Present at the meeting: Sir John William Lubbock, Bart. Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Brande; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Pepys; Dr Roget; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Mr Wheatstone; Reverend R Willis
Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting
Mr Airy Explanation of the construction, positions, comparisons, and times of Observation, of the Meteorological Instruments at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. Postponed Reverend Mr Moseley On a calculation machine. Withdrawn Dr Martin Barry On Fibre. Postponed Mr Hopkins Reserches in Physical Geology - third series. To be printed Lieutenant Colonel Sabine Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism No 3. To be printed Mr Utting Meteorological Observations for 21 June and 21 September 1841. Archives Dr R Lee On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Decidua. Referred Reverend W Walton Meteorological Journal for 1841. Archives Mr Jesse Description and specifica of an Observatory constructed at Ardwick. Referred Reverend Thomas Boyd's Letter to Charles Babbage, Esq "On the steam Wave". Referred
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