| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Combe; Mr Dollond; Mr Gilbert; Mr Hatchett; Mr Warburton; Dr Wollaston
Members of the Board of Longitude present: Major Kater; Mr Pond; Dr Young
Minute of the Council meeting of 6 May appointing the Committee was read
' Ordered that Mr Dollond be requested to enquire of Messrs Pellat and Green the probable expence of erecting a furnace capable of producing a very high temperature for Experiments upon the manufacture of different kinds of Glass; and that he be also requested to send to Mr Faraday, for analysis, sucy specimens of Glass as he considers most perfect.' |