| Description | Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Dr Foster; Sir Joseph Hooker; Professor Huxley; the Treasurer
Read minutes of Council of 19 January 1882 appointing the Committee
Read letters from Treasury of 10 March and 21 March, 1881
Resolved - committee of the opinion that 'no beneficial results woudl be gained by a change in the present management of the Challenger Publications' and that Professor Moeley be added to the Committee
Presented by Mr J Murray ;
1. General report on the state of the Challenger Expedition publications
2. Report on the number, character and cost of the memoirs already published
3. Report with estimates on the Memoirs already in progress, and which may be expected to publish in 1882-3, 1883-4, and 1885-6
4. Report on the subjects not yet allocated
5. Statement of the numbers and characters of the Memoirs already published, in progress, and yet to follow
6. Revised estimate and supplementary estimate of the cost in items and total, both excluding and including the memoirs not yet allocated, of preparing and publishing the whole series of Reports.
Committee then discussed granting of presentation copies to authors who receive no honorarium; Mr Murrasy bringing out an early narrative of the expedition in conjunction with Captain Tizard; placing of negatives with a photographer and copies being sent to the Royal Society, the Royal Gardens at Kew, the British Museum and the office of the Hydrographer, some photographs for sale to public, the negatives remaining the propoerty of the government; return of sketches from Dr Wild; travellling expenses; premature appearance of Professor Haeckel's report in German; the draweings left behind by Dr Willemoes Sulim; the return by Lady Thomson of all documents specimens and other materials connected with the Challenger Expedition still in her possession; preparing a prefatory note by Mr Murray for the next volume; and instructing Professor Huxley and the Junior Secretary to produce a letter listing the resolutions agreed relating to these matters for the Treasurey |