| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr Bell; Mr Brown; Mr Faraday; Dr Fitton; Mr Herschel; Captain Kater; Dr Roget; Captain Sabine; Mr Wollaston; Dr Young
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1828
19 June Lieutenant Colonel Macdonald On the North West Magnetic Pole. Not to be printed
19 June Mr Fenwick On the Decrease of the Waters of the Globe. Not to be prined
19 June Dr Lambe on the Limits of the Pulse. Withdrawn
11 December Captain Sabine On the differences in the length of the Second Pendulum, in the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, and in Mr Browne's house in London, in which Captain Kater's Experiments were made. To be printed
18 December Dr Wollaston On the Water of the Mediterranean. To be printed
18 December Mr Rumke's Astronomical Observations. Postponed
18 December Mr Bevan On Torsion. Postponed
18 December Mr Graves On the Logarithmic Formulae. Postponed
18 December Mr Barlow's Preliminary Experiments with and construction of a Refracting Telescope of 7.8 inches aperture, with a fluid concave lens. To be printed
1829
5 January Captain Sabine On the Dip of the Magnetic Needle in London in August 1828. To be printed |