| Description | Present at the mering: the President in the Chair
The following had leaveto be present;
Mr Thomas Collinson and Mr De Murr by Mr Collinson
Mr Dunn and Mr EMpson by Dr Birch
Mr John Helvetius by the Reverend Mr Van Haemstede
Dr Hart by Dr Watson
Mr Solander by Mr Brander
Minutes of last meeting on 11 June read.
President reported that ' Professor Bliss of Oxford had been prevented from forming deductions from his late observations of the Transit of Venus, by a complaint in his hand, but would take the first opportunity of preparing and laying them before the Society '
Books presented by their authors;
1. Storia dela Musica, vol 1 printed at Bologna in 1757, by Friar Giam Baptistaa Martini
2. Six Latin Dissertations, by Professor Delius, accompanied with a letter, presented by the hands of Dr Hill. |