| RefNo | MM/13/85 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Minutes of meeting of the Excise Committee |
| Date | 20 December 1832 |
| Description | Very rough notes.
"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, W T Brande, M I Brunel, Michael Faraday, WH Pepys, Rev R Sheepshanks and J W Lubbock |
| Extent | 1 side |
| Format | Manuscript |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | See Excise Committee Book, CMB/67 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA5914 | Beaufort; Sir; Francis (1774 - 1857); hydrographer | 1774 - 1857 |
| NA3249 | Brande; William Thomas (1788 - 1866) | 1788 - 1866 |
| NA7956 | Brunel; Sir; Marc Isambard (1769 - 1849); civil engineer | 1769 - 1849 |
| NA8218 | Faraday; Michael (1791 - 1867); natural philosopher | 1791 - 1867 |
| NA7547 | Pepys; William Hasledine (1775 - 1856); surgical instrument maker and natural philosopher | 1775 - 1856 |
| NA5536 | Sheepshanks; Richard (1794 - 1855) | 1794 - 1855 |
| NA7010 | Lubbock; Sir; John William (1803 - 1865) | 1803 - 1865 |