Papers relating to the Royal Astronomical Society, including communication on the fringes of light in the total eclipse, 31 December 1861, as seen by Captain Poulain; a lecture by Airy on the apparatus proposed for the observation of the spectra of stars for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; a note by Airy on the visibility of the stars in the Pleiades to the naked eye; a paper by Airy on the discordance between the results for zenith distances obtained by direct observation and those obtained by observation by reflection from the surface of quicksilver; a paper by Airy 'on the amount of light given by the Moon at the greatest stage in the eccentrically - total eclipse of 1863 June 1'; a copy of a paper by Professor Wolf on solar spots on illegible paper on the variable star Zeta Argo Navis; a report on an account by Otto von Struve on a local deviation in the direction of gravity; correspondence concerning Herr Rümker's catalogue; two biographies on the lives of Professor O.M. Mitchel and Herr Rümker for the Annual Report; correspondence on 'Monthly Notices'; and general correspondence regarding the Royal Astronomical Society.