Minutes of a Committee for examining into the State of the Meteorological Instruments belonging to the Royal Society Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Allen; Mr Combe; Mr Daniell; Mr Gilbert; Mr Howard; Captain Kater; Dr Young Minutes of last meeting were read ' Resolved, that a Pluviometer and Eight Thermometers be immediately directed to be made, and that Mr Allen Mr Daniell Mr Howard and Captain Kater be appointed a Sub-Committee to superintend their execution That from some Experiments made by the President it appears that the freezing point of Tin is uniform and may be desireable for one of the points of the Scale and the freezing point of Water for the other. ' 13 May 1824