Description | Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, president in the chair; Dr Arnott; Mr Baily; Mr BRande; Mr Christie; Dr Fitton; Mr Hopkins; Sir J W Lubbock, Bart; Colonel Sykes; Mr Wheatstone
Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting
Mr Airy Explanation of the construction, positions, comparisons, and times of Observation of the Meteorological Instruments at the Royal Observatory, at Greenwich. Archives Reverend Thomas Boys [sic] Letter to Charles Babbage, Esq "On the Steam Wave". Archives Mr Drach On the diurnal temperture of teh Earth's surface etc. Postponed Dr Kane Contributions to th chemical history of the compounds of Palladium and Platinum. Postponed Mr Addison On the ultimate distribution of the Air - passages and the mode of formtion of the Air - cells of the Lungs. To be printed Dr Fielding Remarks on the probable natural causes of the epidemic influenza as experienced at Hull in 1833. Withdrawn Reverend James Farquharsion Report of a remarkable appearance of the Aurora Borealis below the clouds. To be printed Mr Bowerbank On the organic tissues in the bony structure of the Corallidae. To be prined Mr J F Daniell Sixth letter on Voltaic combinations. Referred Dr Martin Barry On Fibre - additional notes. To be printed
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