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RefNo	CMB/90/3/127
Level	File
Title	Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers
Date	4 June 1840
Description	Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Bell; Mr Christie; Mr donkin; Mr Lubbock; Dr Roget; Major Sabine Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting Mr Smee On the structure of Normal and adventitious Bone. Postponed Mr Thomas W Jones On singel Vision with two eyes. Archives Mr Gulliver On the Blood - corpuscles of the Genus Cervus. Postponed Mr Luke Howard On the Wet summer of 1839. Archives Mr Luke Howard On certain variations of the mean height of the Baromer; from 1815 to 1823. Postponed Reverend B Powell Ont eh theory of the dark bands formed in the solar spectrum from partial interception of transparent plates. Postponed Sir Charles Bell On the nervous System. Postponed Mr Johnston On the constitution of the Resins: Part 4. Postponed Mr Atkinson Remarks on a rain table and map. Archives Reverend W Walton Extracts from a Meteorogical Journal kept at Allenhed, Northumberland. Referred Mr Kater Description of an Astronomical clock, invented by the late Captain Kater. Referred Dr Martin Burry Researches in EMbryology - third series. Referred Professor Schoenbein On the Odour accompanying electricity etc. Referred Mr Luke Howard Tables of the variation, thro' a cycle of nine years of the mean height of th barometer, mean temperature, and depth of rain, as connected with the prevailing winds. REferred Mr Hodgkinson Experimental researches into the strength of pillars of cast iron and other materials. Referred Mr Daniell Second letter on the electroluysis of secondary compounds. To be Printed Deputy Assistant Commissary General Lempriere; Meteorological register kept at Port Arthur Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania; Lutruwita or Truwana], during 1838. Archives Register of Tides at Port Artur; from August 1838 to July 1839. Referred Dr Davy Notice relative tio the form of blood particles of the Orythorgneous Hystriae. Referred Mr Jeffreys On the solution of Silica by Steam. Referred Lieutenant Colonel Yorke Remarks on electrochemical equivalents, and on a supposed discrepancy, between some of them and the atomic weight of some bodies as deduced from the theory of Somorphiom. Referred Mr A Lloyd Second series of approximate deductions made from about 80,000 Observations taken during the years 1836, 1837, and 1838 at Port Louis Observatory, Mauritius, 4 times a day. Referred
Extent	4p
Format	Manuscript
AccessStatus	Open
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