Description: First meeting, held at the Bath Institution, 14th November 1831. It lists the gentlemen of the committee: Sir George Smith Gibbs, Reverend Joseph Hunter, S.P. Pratt Esq., Reverend F. Kilvert, Francis Ellis Esq., J.S. Duncan Esq., P.B. Duncan Esq., Secretary T.S. Davies, Lectures are to be held on: The Newtonian Theory of Gravitation, On Hair, Landscape gardening, Sleep, Physical Analogies; notes on the relations between plants and animals, A Gentlemen's day in Rome at the time of Augustus, Respiration in Man, English Topography, Gentlemen's day in the Country, Or an account of the Agriculture of the Romans and the Literature and Science of the Arabs and Persians.
Newspaper cutting from the Bath Herald, 26th November 1831.