| Description | Present at the meeting: Mr Baily, Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Children; Mr Faraday; Dr Roget
' Read the letters of Mr Clayton Freeling, Secretary to the Excise, dated December 2nd and 19th 1835, requesting the Council of the Royal Society to consider the relative merits of Bates's and Allan's Saccharometers.
Resolved, - That the Council, not having received from the Excise a Saccharometer of Allan's construction, are unable to make the requisite comparison; but, for the reasons contained in their two Reports on the Spirit Hydrometer, (dated February 12th 1833 and February 20th 1836,) are of opinion that any instrument, being a Hydrometer, which is used as a Saccharomeer, giving indications in degrees of specific gravity, is preferable in principle to one indicating by arbitrary degrees. ' |