| Description | Present at the meeting: Lord Charles Cavendish int he chair; Mr Burrow; Mr Fauquier; Mr Franklin; Mr Short; Mr Davall; Mr Fitzgerald; Dr Hadley; Dr Watson; Dr Birch and Dr Morton, Secretaries
Minutes of meeting of 25 June 1761 read
Report by Mr Short from the Commissioners of the Londitude on arrangements for testing Mr Harrison's time pieces; Captain John Cambell to make the observstions on voyage and in Jamaica; and a double set of 'Singular Instruments' provided , namely two equal altitude instruments, two reflecting telescopes of two feet focus, and two good astronomical clocks.
Discussed a letter form Mr Ellis FRS concening specimens of Corallinos required from Dr Baster for verifing the account in Baster's recent paper; Council declined to become involved.
Dr Watson reported thanks received from Trustees of the British Museum regarding the volumes of Transactions sent to them
Ordered a quarto copy of the Statutes of the Society be presented to the British Museum |