| Description | Present at the meeting: the President, in the chair; Mr Baily; Captain Beaufort; Mr Croker; Dr Fitton; Dr Goodenough; Mr Guillenard; Mr Herschel; Captain Kater; Dr Roget; Captain Sabine; Dr Wollaston; Dr Young
Read minutes of the previous meeting
1828
17 January Mr Barlow On the construction of an Achromatic Telescope with a fluid concave lens. To be printed
24 January Mr James Prinsep [?] On a Meteorological Journal kept at Bencares in the Years 1824, 1825, 1826. To be printed
31 January Captain Henry Kater On Trigonometrical Observations in the years 1821, 1822 and 1823, for determining the difference in Longitude between the Royal Observatories of Paris and Greenwich To be printed
14 February Mr William Ritchie On experiments with heated [?] in reference to the Magnetic and electric fluids Postponed
14 February Sir Humphry Davy On the Phenomena of Volcanoes To be printed |