| Description | Present at the meeting: the Earl of Rosse in the chair; Mr Rennie; Mr Christie; Mr Bell; Colonel Sabine; Mr Adams; Mr Bennett; Sir B Brodie; Dr Forbes; Mr Grove; Dr Mantell; Dr Miller; Sir R Murchison; Dr Roget; Mr Wheatstone
Read and confirmed minutes of previous meeting
Mr Henessy Researches in Physical Geology. Postponed
Mr Thomson On a mathematical Theory of Magnetism. Postponed
Dr Mantell Memoir on the Pelorosaurus. Postponed
Dr Mantell Supplemental Remarks on Belemnite. Postponed
The Chief Baron, Sir Francis Pollock On the Extension of Fermats Theorem of Polygonal Numbers. Postponed
Dr Waller Experiments on the Sections of Nerves. Postponed
Mr Tomes On the Teeth of Rodentia. To be printed
Dr Stenhouse On the oils produced by the action of Sulphuric acid on Vegetables. To be printed
Mr Rainey On the Ligamentum Rotundi Meri. Postponed
Mr Glaisher On the Meteorology of England and Wales. Postponed
Dr Davy On the Temperature of Man within the Tropics. To be printed
Mr Bronwin On Linear Differential Equations. Postponed
Mr Curr On the Temperature of Steam etc. Postponed
Mr Reeve On Bulimi Referred
Mr Higginbottam On the Tadpole of the Triton and the Frog. Referred
Sir J Herschel On the algebraic expression of the number of partitions of which a given number is susceptible. Referred |