| Description | Present at the meeting: John William Lubbock Esq Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Brunel; Mr Children; Mr FAraday; Mr Pepys; Dr Roget
Read and confirmed minutes of last meeting
Read paper by Mr Browning ' Remarks upon the present system of ascertaining quantity in Rolling Casks used in the conveyance of British Spirits in the Distillations of the United Kingdom'
Presented before the Committee a document ' Experiments made by Mr Bate and his assistant, J W Sturdy with an instrument to determine the Specific Gravity of given mixtures of Spirit and Water'
Treasurer presented certain Tables calculaed by Mr Russell and a note drawn up by himself, on the construction of Mr Bate's Hydrometer and on the accuracy of Gilpin's Tables
' Resolved,
1. That from a careful examination of the above documents, the Committee are of the opinion that Gilpin's TAbles possess a degree of accuracy far surpassing what could be expected and sufficiently perfect for all practical or scientific purposes.
2. The Treasurer reported that he had paid Mr Russell £25 for constructing the above mentioned tables - this payment be approved
3. That having considered the various instruments submitted to them, the Committee see no reason to depart from the determination they came to on the 15th January 1833, namely, that the Hydrometer should be the instrument used in ascertaining the strength of spirit, and that it should be graduated to show specific gravities.
4. That the new Hydrometer submitted by Mr Bate (specimens of which, marked q and 2, were laid before the Committee) be the instrument which the Committee recommend to the Lords of the Treasury for adoption.
5. That Mr Faraday be requested to examine the above instruments and tables experimentally; and that if, after such examination, they be found correct, Tables III and IV be interpolsted under the direction of Mr Lubbock
6. That Mr Lubbock and Mr Faraday be requested to draw up a Report to be pressented to the Lords of the Treasury.' |