| Reference number | MM/13/86 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee |
| Date | 15 January 1833 |
| Description | With resolutions on the specific nature of the hydrometer.
"The Excise Committee worked in response to a request from the Treasury: its task was to devise a simple and practicable form of hydrometer to be used by excisemen in assesing the duty on spirits, wine and beer, and thus it duly did, to the complete satisfaction of the Treasury", M Boas-Hall, 'All Scientists Now: The Royal Society in the Nineteenth Century', Cambridge: CUP, 1984, pp168.
Present at the meeting: Francis Bailey, Captain Francis Beaufort, M I Brunel, J G Children, Michael Faraday, WH Pepys, P M Roget and Rev R Sheepshanks |
| Extent | 4 sides |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | See Excise Committee Book, CMB/67 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA5914 | Beaufort; Sir; Francis (1774 - 1857); hydrographer | 1774 - 1857 |
| NA7956 | Brunel; Sir; Marc Isambard (1769 - 1849); civil engineer | 1769 - 1849 |
| NA3175 | Children; John George (1777 - 1852); chemist | 1777 - 1852 |
| NA8218 | Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher, scientific adviser, and Sandemanian | 1791 - 1867 |
| NA7547 | Pepys; William Hasledine (1775 - 1856); surgical instrument maker and natural philosopher | 1775 - 1856 |
| NA6616 | Roget; Peter Mark (1779 - 1869); physician and philologist | 1779 - 1869 |
| NA5536 | Sheepshanks; Richard (1794 - 1855) | 1794 - 1855 |