Minutes of a Committee for the taking into consideration Mr Babbages application of Maccinery to the purpose of calculating and printing Mathematical Tables Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Combe; Mr Gilbert; Mr Herschel; Caprain KAster; Mr Pond; Dr Young Minutes of the last meeting were read. ' Resolved that it appears to the Committee that Mr Babbage has displayed great Talents and Ingenuity in the construcition of his Machine for Computation which the Committee thinks fully adequate to the attainment of the immediate objects proposed by the Inventor, and that they consider Mr Babbage as highly deserving of public encouragement in the prosecution of his Arduous Undertaking. ' 1 May 1823