| Description | Present at the meeting: James Burrow Esq Vice President in the chair
The following had leave to be present;
Mr Du Pont and Mr Perrie by Dr Stukeley
Mr Volkman and Dr Pallas by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Mr Alchorne by Mr Colllinson
Mr Waddingon and the Baron of Prawn by Dr Morton
The Reverend Mr Price by John Canton
Mr Robert Burrow by Mr James Burrow
Mr Embyn and Mr Sherwin by Mr Cavendish
Presents received:
Communications received:
1. Letter from Nathaniel Bliss to the President of 15 December 1761 consisting of a historical account of inferior conjunctions ssuch as that of Venus, and account of all the late observations made at the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and at the President's Observatory of Shirburn Castle (part previously communicated to the Society) and finally the several steps taken by Bliss in his calculations and the conclusions reached. [Account given in detail]
2. Mr Goodwin to Rev Dr Parker FRS his particulars of the late Transit
3. Paper entitled ' Letter from Mr John Wood to Jonathan Perry Esq of Hamsted, from Calcutta on 7 March 1761' communicated by Dr Stukeley. Gives account of two natural curiosities in the East Indies; the first is a burning rock outside the city of Islamabad, capital of the province of Chetagon; the other is a well some four miles from the rock where the water has a continual flame upon the surface.
4. Paper signed John Ellicot entitled 'Observations of the Transit of Venus over the disk of the Sun on 6 June 1761, made at the Observatory of teh imperial college of Jesuits at Madrid, by Father Christiano Reiger, Cosmographer to His Majesty, translated fromt eh account printed in Spanish at Madrid'. [No summary of contents]
5. Paper signed E Webster from St Neots, Huntingdonshire of 29 December 1761 read, concerning his observations of the Transit of Venus. [Gives account of his results]
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