| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair
The following had leave to be present;
Mr Macfarlane by Mr Short
Mr Dunn by Dr Birch
Dr Wilkinson and Dr Solander by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Dr Ribes and Mr Astley by Martin Hubner
The Baron de Prawn and Mr Hall by C Morton
Mr Richardson by Edwards
' Count Holstein of Denmark, formerly proposed according to the statute, was elected a Fellow of this Society. '
Gifts from their authors
1. 'Basteri Opuscula subcesiva de animalibus et plantis ' quarto, printed at Harlem 1761
2. Two physico-medical dissertations of Mr Boissier de Sauvages 'touching local remedies and the effects of the Air upon human Bodies', in quarto translated from the French into Italian by Saverio MAnotti, and printed at Florence in 1754
3. ' Reflections upon the effects of riding on horseback ' by Joseph Benvenuto MD, quarto in Italian, printed at Lucca in 1760
4. 'Dissertation de Febribus epidemicis, Lucensibus' by Joseph Benvenuto, octavo printed at Lucca in 1754
5. 'Del Sale Delle acque thermale Di Lucca' by Joseph Benvenuto, octavo printed at Lucca in 1758
6. 'A collection of memoirs concerning rural oeconomy by the Society of Berne', octavo in the French tongue, being the 1st, 2nd and 3rd parats of the second tome, printed at Turic in 1761.
Thanks given for all the presnets, and Dr Baster's work was referred to Mr Da Costa to give an account of it.
Two manuscripts from the Society's library were borrowed by Dr Ducarrel FRS, numbers 2901 and 2902, entitled 'Registrum de Glastonia per Gualterum de Moniton' and 2966 and 2967 'Registrum Prioratus S. Trinitatis Cantisariensis' , having previously given a bond of £50 to return them.
Communications;
1. Read Professor Bliss's account of Eustactuo Zanatti's printed paper concerning his observation of the transit of Venus [Contents not listed in minutes]
2. Reading of Mr Maskelyne's letter to the Reverend Dr Birch FRS dated at St Helena, 9 September 1761 completed, containing the journal of Mr Maskelyne's voyage to St Helena and the result of his observations for determining the longitude of the ship, during the voyage; and also the Rules he makes use of, in computing the longitude from an observations. [Account given in detail]
3. Read a paper "Certain reasons for a lunar atmosphere' by Mr Samuel Dunn of Chelsea, concerning his observation of the two extremities of Saturn's Ring, at the time that planet emerges from the dark edges of the Moon. [Account listed in detail, and includes a Projection or drawing of the several appearances, in thier progression.]
4. Read a letter to the Reverend Dr Birch FRS dated at Gough Square on 13 May 1762 and signed William Rivet, concerning two tables for determining the dominical letter for a given Julian year at any given number of the solar cycle. [Account given in detail]
5. Read a letter to the President dated at Lincoln's Inn Fields on 14 April 1762, signed John Stephens, concerning an account of a shock of an Earthquake on the 9th of June 1761, which was felt in the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset; describing the effects and some appearances, which were found subsequently on digging into the earth near Marston, the seat of the Earl of Cork. [Account given in detail]
Discussed the delay to the publication of the Transactions because of the papers relating to the transit of Venus, but decided that 'notice should be given by an advertisement in the publick papers, when the volume was ready for delivery.'
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