Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers Present at the meeting: Francis Baily Esq. Vice President in the Chair: the Earl of Burlington; Mr Children; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Gilbert; the Reverend G Peacock; Mr Pepys; Mr Rigaud; Dr Roget; Captain Smyth; Mr Travers; Mr Walker; Mr Wheatstone Read and confirmed minutes of meeting Sir E Home - Magnetical Observations made in the West Indies [Caribbean], on the coasts of Brazil and North America. Postponed Reverend J B Reade - An inquiry into a new theory of Earthy Bases of Vegetable Tissues. Postponed Mr Thomson - An account of a line of Levels, carried across Northern Syria, from the Mediterranean Sea, to the River Euphrates : with Geological and Botanical Notes by Mr Ainsworth. Archives Mr Ivory - On the theory of Astronomical Refractions. Referred Mr Faraday's Supplementary Note. To be printed 31 May 1838