Record

RefNoCMB/42/4/3
LevelItem
TitleMinutes, meeting of the Donation Fund Committee
Date18 May 1835
DescriptionLists as present John George Children, Peter March Roget and [John] Warburton, with John William Lubbock in the chair. Lists committee bsiness, including a decision to report the 'present state of the account' to the Society, a letter from Mr Wheatsone applying for funding to undertake experiments 'into the velocity of electricity in its passage along a conducting wire', and a decision to have William Whewell and George Peacock report on the soundness of the scheme. p55.
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA3562Warburton; John (c 1793 - 1845)c 1793 - 1845
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