| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair
The following had leave to be present;
Messrs von Aken and Atvedson, Swedes, by Emanuel Mendes da Costa
Mr Scanton, Mr Saulnier and Dr Solander by Peter Collinson
Dr Tyson by Dr Birch
Dr Stephens by Mr Hudson
Count Stratico of Padua and Baron Braun by Dr Morton
Gifts from their authors;
1. 'Gulielmi Hudson RSS Flora Anglica' octavo, printed at London 1761
2. 'Pauli Frisii Mediolanensis RSS Dissertationum variarum tomus alter' quarto, printed at Luca 1761
3. Paulo Frisi, concerning the manner of regulating Rivers and Streams, quarto in Italian, printed at Luca in 1761
4. 'Sermo Academicus de Similitudine vis electricae et magneticae' by F V F Aepinus, quarto printed at Petersburgh
5. 'Tentamen Theoriae Electricitatis et Magnetismi' by F V F Aepinus, quarto printed at Petersburgh (This and the previous book presented by the hands of Mr Wilson FRS)
6. 'Commentatii Accademiae Petropolitanae tomus VI ' in quarto Petropoli, 1762
7. 'Linnaei Disquisitio de de sexis plantarum, praemia donata in Academia Petropolitana, 1760'
8. 'Albertus Euler Berolinensis de vertiginis Planetarum, pro praemio Academicae Petropolitanae 1760'
9. A dissertation upon artificial Magnetes, by Mr Antheaulme of Paris, in the French tongue; the prize dissertation for 1758: printed at Petersburgh 1760.
10. 'J A Braunius de admirando frigore artificiali' printed at Petersburgh without date
11. 'Michaelis Lomanosaru Meditationes de Solido et Fluido' printed t Petersburgh 1760
12. 'Samlung Russischer Geschichte' octavo, printed at Petersburgh 1760
The above books from Russia presented by the hand of Dr Dumaresque FRS and are presumed to come from Mr Lomanorow.
13. 'Memoire du Passage de Venus sur le Soleil' by Mr l'Abbe d'Auteroche, of the Royal academy of Paris, printed at Petersburgh; which was referred to by Mr Short
14. 'Rodolphim Venuti Cortonensis etc Dissertatio de Dea Libertate, et de Libertinorum Pileo' quarto printed at Rome in 1762; presented by the hands of Mr Hollis FRs
Communications;
1. A letter addressed to the President, dated at Paris on 3 September 1762 and signed Morand, Librarian of the Royal Academie of Sciences concer ning the reestablishment of correspondence between the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Paris, and the sending of books.
2. Read a paper concerning the absorbency of the human body, by Dr Wilkinson of Southampton Row, Bloomsbury communicated by Sir Edward Wilmot BArt, Physician to His Majesty. [Account in detail included]
3. Read extract from a letter by Mr de la Lande, of the Royal academy of Sciences, to Charles Morton Secretary of the Royal Society, dated at Paris on 30 July 1762, containing the elements of the Comet observed at Paris in the preceding month of June, as deduced by Mr De la Lande, from a great number of observations. [Account listed]
4. Read a letter to Charles Morton FRS dated at East India House, 20 July 1762 and signed Robert James, Secretary together with several other papers. These ' included 'Observations of the Transit of Venus' made by Mr William Magee of Calcutta by order of the Court of Directors; 'Observations of the same Transit ' by Messrs Bartholomew Plaisted and John Knott, at Chittagong, by order of the same Court of directors. Both referred to Mr Short FRS to give an account of them. Also a paper with extracts from three letters; first, a copy of the 131st paragraph of the general letter, from the President and Council of Bengal, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, dated 12 November 1761 reciting the general order which had been given throughout the Company's settlements to make the best observations they could of the transit of Venus; second, a copy of the second paragraph of the general letter, from the Governor and Council of St Helena, dated 18 February 1762 which mentions, that pursuant to the orders of the Court of directors, Mr Maskelyne, the Society's principal Observer, had been shipped with all his instruments and necessaries, on board the Warwick, with orders to Captain Dewar to provide him with proper accommodations, at the expence of the Court of Directors; third, extract from a lettter of Mr Mann Horner, Supercargo of the ship Warwick, to the Court of Directors of the East India company, dated at Plymouth 14 May 1762, which relates that Mr Maskelyne in his passage home corrected the longitude of the Company's ship Warwixk 10 degrees, by his method (lately laid before the Society) and was so exact as to make the land within 10 miles of his account. Mr Mann also commends to the Court of Directors Mr Maskelyne's civility, in treaching his method to several of their officers in the Warwick.
Upon reading of these several papers, it was unanimously resolved by the Society that Robert Burrow Esq FRS who is also one of the Court of Directors of the East India Company, be requested to present the thanks of the Society to his Brethren of the said Court, for their great favour and goodness during the whole of this transaction relative to the observation of the Transit of Venus. And it was also ordered, that Charles Morton FRS write a letter to the Directors, to the sme effect. '
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