| Description | Present at the meeting: Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Vice President and Treasurer in the chair; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Dr Bright; Mr Hopkins; Dr Roget; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Mr Wheatstone
Read and confirmed minutes of the lst meeting
Mr Drach On the diurnal temperature of the Earth's surface etc. Postponed
Dr Kane Contributions to the Chemical History of the compounds of Palladium and Platinum. To be printed, in accordance with the recommendation of the Committee of Chemistry "that it is the opinion of this Committee that Dr Kane should be requested to express the experiments and results in English weights and measures."
Mr J F Daniell Sixth letter on Voltaic Combinations. To be printed
Lieutenant Colonel Yorke BArometrical Observations, showing the effect of the direction of the wind on the difference between distant barometers. Withdrawn
Mr James D Forbes On the transparency of the Atmosphere, and the Law of extinction of the Solar Rays in passing through it. Bakerian Lecture - to be printed
Mr William Snow Harris On the Specific Inductive Capacities of certain Electric Substances. To be printed
Sir John F W Herschel On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on Vegetable Colours. To be printed - Sir John Herschel being anthorized to add in a postscript such facts and remarks connected with the subject as he may think proper.
Reverend B Powell Experimental Researches on the Elliptic Polarization of Light. Withdrawn
Lieutenant Lefroy On the influence of the Moon on the Atmosphere pressure as deduced from the Observations of the Barometer made at the Magnetic Observatory at St. Helena. Referred
Captain James Clark Ross Notices of the Aurora Australis from the 1st to the 31st Mrch 1841, made on board H M Ship Erebus. Metereorological Archives
Dr Robert Lee Appendix to a paper on the Nervous Ganglia of the Uterus. To be printed
Mr Booth On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical Ellipse. Referred |