Minutes of a meeting of the Committee of Papers Present at the meeting: the Marquis of Northampton, President, in the chair; Mr Brande; Mr Christie; Mr Daniell; Mr Lawrence; Sir john William Lubbock; Mr Pepys; Dr Roget; Lieutenant Colonel Sykes; Mr Wheatstone; Reverend R Willis Read and confirmed minutes of the last meeting Lieutenant Lefroy On the influence of the Moon on the atmospheric pressure, as deduced from the Observations of the Barometer made at the Magnetic Observatory at St Helena. Postponed Mr Drach On the diurnal temperature of the earth's surface etc. Postponed Mr Booth On the rectification and quadrature of the spherical ellipse. Archives 6 October 1842