| Description | Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Thomas Bell; Mr christie; Mr Donkin; Mr Richard Phillips; Reverend B Powell; Dr Roget; Lieutenant Colonel Sabine; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Reverend R Willis
Read and confirmed minutes of last meeting
Dr Martin Barry On the Corda Dorsalis. Postponed
Dr Martin Barry On the Corpuscles of the Blood - Part 2. Postponed
Mr Grove On some Eletro Nitrogurets. Archives
Mr Hargreaves On the calculation of attrractions, and the figure of the Earth. To be printed
Dr Mantell Memoir on a portion of the lower jaw of an Iguanodon and other Saurian Remains etc. To be printed
Mr L Howard On a cycle of 18 years in the mean annual height of the barometer in the climate of London etc. Postponed
Mr L Howard On a remarkable depression of the barometr in November 1840 agreeing very closely in its movements and results with that of December 1821. Postponed
Mr Redhouse General results of meteorological Observations at Constantinople. Postponed
Reverend James Farquharson On the localities affected by hoar frost, the peculia currents of air excited by it. Archives
Sir John Lubbock, Bart Note on an irregularity in the height of the barometer, of which the argument is the declination of the Moon. To be printed
Reverend W Walton Meteorological Journal for 1840, kept at Allenheads, Northumberland with remorks on the rain gage. Archives
Mr Mc Cormick Remarks on the Birds of Kerguelen's Land. Postponed
Mr Mc Cormick Geological remarks on Kerguelen's Land. Deposited in the Iron Chest of the Society
Mr L Howard on the proportion of the prevailing winds, the mean temperature, and the depth of rain in the climate of London, computed thro' a cycle of 18 years. Postponed
Mr Weddle New method of solving numerical equations. Archives
Mr Bowman Additional note on the contraction of voluntary muscle. To be printed
Mr Rutherford Investigation of a new and simple series by which the ratio of teh diameteer of a circle to its circumference may be easily computed to any required degree of accuracy. Postponed
Sir David Brewster On the phenomena of this plates of solid and fluid substances exposed to polarized light. To be printed
Dr Franz Memoir of a case of a gentleman born blind, successfully operated upon etc. To be printed
Mr J Robertson Catalogue of Geological specimens procured from Kerguelen's Land, during May, June aand July 1840. Deposited in the Iron Chest of the Society
Mr J Robertson Catalogue of Birds collected on board H.M. Ship Terror, between the Cape of Good Hope and Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana]. referred
Mr J Robertson Description of Plants from Kerguelen's, collected in May, June and July 1840. Referred
Dr Mantell On the fossil remains of Turtles. To be printed
Mr Toynbee Researches tending to prove the non - vascularity of certain animal tissues etc. To be prined
Sir David Brewster On the compensations of Polarized Light. Archives |