Minutes of a meeting of the "Challenger" Publication Committee Present at the meeting: the President in the chair; Dr Foster; Sir Joseph Hooker; Professor Huxley; Professor Stokes; the Treasurer In attendance: Mr Murray Minutes of the last meeting read Secretary read a draft letter to reply to the one from the Treasury, and it was approved Title page of forthcoming volumes reconsidered, and resolved ' that the consideration of the introduction into the Challenger Reports of a Statement of the position and responsibility of the Royal Society in relation to the publication of the Challenger Reports be deferred for the present.' Memoirs in progress and those about to be undertaken considered in detail. 15 June 1882