Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton in the chair; Mr Baily; Mr F Bell; Mr Christie' Dr Davy; Mr Donkin; Mr Forster; Mr Galloway; Mr Graham; Mr Lubbock; Mr R Phillips; Dr Roget; Major Sabine Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting Mr H S Thomas meteorological observations made at Alten in Finmarken between October 1837 and April 1839. Archives Mr Gassiot On Nobilis' Plate of Colours. Archives Mr Smee On the structure of Normal and adventitious Bone. Postponed Mr T W Jones On single Vision with two eyes. Postponed Mr Gulliver On the Blood - corpuscles of the Genus Cervus. Postponed Mr Luke Howard On the wet summer of 1839. Postponed Mr Luke Howard On certain variations of the mean height of the Barometer from 1815 to 1823. Referred Reverend B Powell On the theory of the dark bands formed in the solar spectrum from partial interception of transparent plates. Referred Major Sabine Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism. To be printed Mr Faraday Experimental Researches in Electricity - 17th series and postscript. To be printed Reverend W Whewell Researches on the Tides - additional note to the 11th series. To be printed Sir Charles Bell On the nervous System. Referred Mr Johnston On the constitution of the Resins - Part 4. Referred 30 April 1840