Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Sir John Barrow; Mr Baily; Mr Bell; Mr Christie; Mr Galloway; Sir John Jerschel; Mr Lubbock; Mr Owen; Dr Roget; Major Sabinre Read and confimed the minuts of the last meeting Reverend B Reade On the construction of single achromatic eye-pieces. Archives Mr H Thomas Meteorological Observations made at ALton in Finmarken between October 1837 and April 1839. Postponed Mr Gassiot On Nobilis' Plated of Colours. Referred Mr Smee On the structure of Normal and adventitious Bone. Postponed Mr P Hardy On a new and general Notation appllicable to the doctrine of Life Contingencies. Postponed Mr T W Jones On single Vision with two eyes. Postponed Mr Gulliver On the Blood - corpuscles of the Genus Cervus. Postponed Deputy Assistant Commissioner General Lampriere Meteorological Register for the year 1838. With the collections. Note added by the President; Archives Mr Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity - 16th series. To be printed Mr L Howard On the wet summer of 1839. Referred Sir John Herschel On the chemical action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on prepararions of Silver etc. To be printed Reverend B Powell On the Theory of th dispersion of Light, as connected with Polarization. To be printed Mr Maclear Further particulars of the fall of the Cold Bokkwald Meteorite. To be printed Sir F Palgrave Account of Shooting - stars of 1095 and 1243. To be printed 12 March 1840