Letter, from Philip Henry Zollman to John Philip Baratier, dated at London Zollman sends the minute from the meeting of the Royal Society held on 26 January translated in French This stated that nothing could be done for Baratier if he kept his proposal a secret and that the Act of Parliament of 1714, which offered a reward to the person who solved the 'longitude problem', was still in force and would be sent to him 13 February 1738