| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Individual minutes are numbered.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: Horace Tabberer Brown: James Bryce; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Sir Andrew Noble; Arnold William Reinold; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); George Johnstone Stoney; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Edward Burdett Tylor; Sir Samuel Wilks; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Deaths of H.R.H. the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland, Dr. John Anderson and Sir John Bennet Lawes.
3. Letter from Lord Rayleigh, declining the office of President on the grounds that it would interfere with his researches.
4. Request to be made to Sir William Huggins for nomination as President.
5. Nomination of Fellows to serve on Council from Anniversary Day, with a list of retiring Council members.
6. Letter from the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory conveying Sir F. Mowatt's notice that Bushy House was to be offered as a site for the Laboratory; the Secretaries to reply accepting the offer.
7. Members of the General Board and Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory to serve an additional year, during negotiations.
8-9. Report of the Provisional Committee of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature presented, suggesting that the Royal Society should act as publisher. President and Council reported as willing, with likely expenses to be referred to the Finance Committee.
10. Adjudication of Royal Society medals discussed and adjourned.
11. Report of the Soiree Committee on Anniversary Dinner arrangements, approved.
12. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee, recommending payments to applicants.
13. An address of condolence had been sent to the Secretary of State for Home Affairs on the death of the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and H.M. the Queen had acknowledged it.
14. The Treasurer had represented the Royal Society at the funeral of Sir John B. Lawes.
15. Succession duties on the portrait of Captain Manby had been reimbursed and the picture was requested to be delivered to London from Paris.
16. Extensions for admission to the Fellowship granted to Professors David, MacGregor and Spencer and to Dr. Muir.
17. £2,000 and £500 received from the Treasury for the Government Grant and Publication Grant accounts.
18. Letter from the Foreign Office with pamphlets on conditions for the award of Nobel Prizes tabled.
19. Leave granted to Dr. H. S. Williams to photograph and sketch the Society's rooms. Leave granted for the reprinting of papers and copying of illustrations.
20. Bills for printing, binding, engraving and for other expenses.
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