Minutes of a meeting of the "Challenger" Publication Committee Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Dr Foster; Sir Joseph Hooker; the Treasurer Mr Murray in attendance Minutes of last meeting read Draft letter to the Treasury read by the Junior Secretary Mr Murray authorised; 1. to transfer the memoior on Crinoids begun by Sir Wyville Thomson, whose plates are nearly prepared on stone, to Mr P H Carpenter 2. to transfer the land mammals, reptiles and insects i globes and unconditionally to the British Museum Letter of response to the letter from the Treasury of 27 April . [Printed and pasted into minutes. Includes Estimate of the extent of the official scientific reports; and List of memoirs with particulars of payment; ] 5 May 1882