| Description | Present at the meeting: Peter Davall Esq Vice President in the chair
The following Gentlemen had leave to be present;
Adlard Stukeley Esq and Mr William Stukeley by Dr Stukely
Mr Francomb and Dr Solander by Mr Ellis
Charlwood Lawton Esq and Mr James Empson by Mr Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Reverend Mr Mainwaring by Dr Gisborne
Doctor Shippen by Mr Collilnson
' A certificate recommending Samuel Felton, of King Street Covent Garden Esq for election into this Society dated London, May 20, 1762, and signed Israel Wildes, H Baker, Emanuel Mendes da Costa, John Ellis, Thomas Brand, and Charles Morton, was read, and ordered to be put up in the publick meeting Room. '
Communications;
1. Read a letter from Samuel Mead Esq FRS to Chrles Morton MD Secretary dated 18 May 1762 concerning dispatch by Mr Mead of Charles Mason and astronomical instruments from the Cape of Good Hope without the formns of the Custom House.
2. Read a letter addressed to James Cotes Esq dated Newport, Salop, 10 April 1762 and signed Benjamin Talbot, communicated by Earl Ferrers concerning proposals for discovery of a method of observing the longitude at sea; and 'was determined to belong properly to the Commissioners of Longitude. '
3. Earl Ferrers read a note from Charles Morton FRS 'relating to the path of Venus, in her late Transit over the Sun. The tendency of this note is to remove an objection made to his Lordhsip's paper upon that subject, by laying aside the consideration of an apparent curve, and stating the path truly, as a right line passing through the point of nearest approach of the centers of Venus and the Sun. '
4. Read a letter addressed to the Reverend Dr Birch FRS dated Warwick East India Man, off Plymouth on 14 May 1762, and signed Neville Maskelyne, converning the method of finding longitude at sea. [Account summarised]
5. Read a paper entitled "An account of the salutary effects of Electricity in several instances, by the Reverend Mr Wood of High Ercall, Salop; drawn up at the request of a friend, and upon an examination of the parties taken very lately. " communicated by Dr Birch FRS from the Reverend Dr Douglass [Account including format and account of apparatus, and 16 cases]
6. The reading of Mr Main's paper concerning fossil coal was continued.
7. Read an account of a white woodcock which was shot in Yorkshire the previous January,' and agreed in colour with the common woodcock, excepting in the colour and that it seemed to be of a larger size.'
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