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RefNoCMB/90/3/124
LevelFile
TitleMinutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers
Date12 March 1840
DescriptionPresent at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Sir John Barrow; Mr Baily; Mr Bell; Mr Christie; Mr Galloway; Sir John Jerschel; Mr Lubbock; Mr Owen; Dr Roget; Major Sabinre

Read and confimed the minuts of the last meeting

Reverend B Reade On the construction of single achromatic eye-pieces. Archives
Mr H Thomas Meteorological Observations made at ALton in Finmarken between October 1837 and April 1839. Postponed
Mr Gassiot On Nobilis' Plated of Colours. Referred
Mr Smee On the structure of Normal and adventitious Bone. Postponed
Mr P Hardy On a new and general Notation appllicable to the doctrine of Life Contingencies. Postponed
Mr T W Jones On single Vision with two eyes. Postponed
Mr Gulliver On the Blood - corpuscles of the Genus Cervus. Postponed
Deputy Assistant Commissioner General Lampriere Meteorological Register for the year 1838. With the collections. Note added by the President; Archives
Mr Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity - 16th series. To be printed
Mr L Howard On the wet summer of 1839. Referred
Sir John Herschel On the chemical action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on prepararions of Silver etc. To be printed
Reverend B Powell On the Theory of th dispersion of Light, as connected with Polarization. To be printed
Mr Maclear Further particulars of the fall of the Cold Bokkwald Meteorite. To be printed
Sir F Palgrave Account of Shooting - stars of 1095 and 1243. To be printed
Extent3p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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