Article #94 - Meeting Minutes & Future Discussions

[This packet, sewn together with thread, contains minutes of meetings and subjects for future talks. ]

Can the quality of fruit be improved by grafting and will it not shorten the life of the tree bearing it? - Margaret P. Martin

What are some of the principal evidences that the Rochester Knockings are manifestations

of the spirits of departed persons; or, that they are caused by human agency? - Jabez Baily

Minutes of the meeting commenced on the 11 of the 10th month 1851 The Association met according to adjournment, the house being called to order the minutes of the previous meeting

were read. An invitation having been extended to Jonathan Gause to deliver a lecture before the Association being then present gave us an interesting and instructive discourse on the subject of

English Grammar.   On motion adjourned.

Minutes of the meeting held 10th mo 26th 1841

[Mentions Samuel W. Sellers, president, and G. P. Hayes, Strode Batton, E. P. Barnard (appointed editress of the Journal). Other officers were E. P. Barnard, Franklin Darlington, and Marshall Taylor.]

1. Should every man vote at an election of government officers, and why - H. C. Yarnall

2. What are some of the evils resulting from living in ill ventilated houses - Fenelon Darlington

3. How does lightning act on animals to take life - Wm. E. House

4. Please to give a geographical description of the island of Madagascar and the race, character and habits of the people that inhabit it - Hannah Barnard

5. Please to give a description of that portion of the earth’s surface that lies between the 10th and 14th degrees of south latitude. - Sarah Ann Martin

6. What causes the different colours of the Aurora Borealis such as white, yellow, red, and purple - Margaret P. Martin

7. Please explain what is meant by the ancient feudal system - L. Marshall

8. Can intelligence be transmitted by telegraph to several different places at the same time  - E. P. Barnard

[There is no number 9.]

10. Why is the morning air more wholesome than the evening air - Stephen Jackson

11. How is the cause of the circle that is sometimes seen around the moon accounted for - Mary Jane James

12. How can an invisable [sic] substance have mechanical force - Jabez Baily

13. Please to give your honest, sincere, candid and real opinion of the comparative excellence of the phonographic system of writing; give the reasons why it should be generally learned, and consider some the principal objections to it and its general introduction - Franklin Darlington

14. Why does steam burn more severely than boiling water - Minerva Barnard

15. Please to explain the origin and history of the phonographic system of writing - S. A. Vernon

16. What produces electricity in the clouds - Jonathan Sellers

17. What is the cause of spontaneous combustion - Margaret P. Martin

18. Why is lightening [sic] more common in summer and autumn than in winter and spring - Samuel Martin

19. Why is it colder on a mountain than in a valley - Pennock Martin

20. Is there any nourishment in coffee - G. P. Hayes

21. Why does a lamp smoke - Edward G. Martin

22. What new methods have been adopted and means employed within the last few years for promoting and facilitating common school education - Franklin Darlington

[Mentioned in minutes of succeeding meetings: Eusebius Barnard, president; Jabez Baily, secretary; Isaac Martin, who was to lecture but was absent; Ann Eliza Griffith; Simon Martin; and Otley Vernon.]