| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Browne; Me Combe; Sir H C Englefield; Mr gilbert; Captain Kater; Colonel Mudge; Dr Wollaston; Dr Young
Minutes of the last Committee were read.
The following Papers transmitted to the Royal Society by the Secretary of the Admiralty were laid before the Committee by order of the Council of the Royal Society;
1. Letter from John Barrow of the Admiralty Office of 23 December 1818 confirming the transmitting of the four books described in the accompanying schedule for the information of the President and Council of the Royal Society
2. Schedule of books sent to the Royal Society;
No. 1 Observations with the dip Sector
No. 2 Account of the going of the sic chronometers embarked in the Isabella with the Longitude by each one during her voyage of Discovery 1818 kept by Captain Sabine
No. 3 Captain Sabine's Observations on the dip and variation of the needlw and on th intensity of teh magnetic force.
No. 4 Official Record of Observations on the going of a pendulum clock, on the magnetic dip and on the intensity of the magnetic force.
3. Order from the Admiralty of 23 December 1818 that the report respecting Captain Sabine's paper be transmitted to the Council of the Royal Society
' Report of the Committee for ascertaining the length of the Seconds Pendulum to the Council of the Royal Society respecting the Observations of Captain Sabine.
It is the Opinion of theis Committee that Captain Sabine has shown the greatest possible diligence in making the Observations which were intrusted to his care and the greatest judgement and regularity in his method of recording them. And this Committee therefore suggests the propriety of recommending Captain Sabine to the Admiralty in the strongest manner, both as deserving every professonal encouragement, and as a proper person to be again appointed to take charge of the Observations to be made in a new Expedition.
At the same time the Committee cannot help expressing greatest regret that the opportunities afforded for Captain Sabione's Experiments on the pendulum were so much limitted by the shortness of the time allowed him at the different Stations, and their wishes that this inconvenience should be remedied by the arrangement to be adopted in any future occasion. ' |