Minutes, meeting of the Donation Fund Committee Lists as present John George Children, Peter March Roget and [John] Warburton, with John William Lubbock in the chair. Lists committee bsiness, including a decision to report the 'present state of the account' to the Society, a letter from Mr Wheatsone applying for funding to undertake experiments 'into the velocity of electricity in its passage along a conducting wire', and a decision to have William Whewell and George Peacock report on the soundness of the scheme. p55. 18 May 1835