Minutes of a meeting of a Committee for examining the state of the Meteorological Instruments belonging to the Royal Society Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Babbage; Mr Brande; Mr Combe; Mr Daniell; Mr Gilbert; Mr Herschel; Captain Kater Minutes of the last committee were read ' Resolved; 1. That the construction of two Barometers one a Syphon and the other a Cistern Barometer be entrusted to Mr Newman of Leslie Street under the direction of this Committee 2. That the consideration of a Thermometer and of a Thermometer Scale, be deferred to another meeting of this Committee 3. That one of Daniels Hygrometers be ordered for tye use of teh Society for Mr Newman. ' 25 April 1822