| Description | Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken.
Commencing with a list of Council members present: William Wivesley Abney; William Henry Mahoney Christie; George Howard Darwin; Warren De La Rue; Robert Etheridge; Sir Frederick John Owen Evans; William Henry Flower; George Carey Foster; Michael Foster; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Henry Nottidge Moseley; Hugo Muller; Andrew Noble; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; John Scott Burdon Sanderson; George Gabriel Stokes; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey; Alexander William Williamson; the Treasurer [Sir John Evans] in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: declaration in lieu of the oath by Andrew Noble as a new Council member; announcement of the decease of John Gwyn Jeffreys. The Recommendation Committee report and the proposal of Theodore James as the new Clerk at a salary of £150 per year. A report of the Soiree Committee, with suggestions on the scale and dates of next events, and a circular requesting that Fellows should lend to the exhibitions - a budget of £100 for expenses is recommended and the rooms should be open on 19 March for Fellows and friends who are invited to exhibit apparatus and objects of interest. On the advice of the Scientific Relief Fund, £50 placed with G. G. Stokes to disburse to an [unnamed] applicant. An application for a grant to Mr. Whitman to illustrate 'Land leeches of Japan' referred to Moseley and the junior Secretary. Requests for more access to the Society's rooms and Library referred to the House and Soiree Committee. Two letters from Arthur Schuster on solar eclipse observations. An offer of a marble replica bust of Henry Smith accepted. £20 from the Donation Fund allocated to Harvey Gibson. £500 received from the excutors of the late Mr. Bentham, for the Scientific Relief Fund. Litigation by Mr. Warburton to be observed. A letter from R. S. Welby, Treasury Chambers, requesting receipts for Government Grant expenditure, the reply being that none were gathered. The report of the Meteorological Vacancy Committee be adopted. Fellows invited to observe lighthouse experiments at South Foreland by Trinity House. Thanks from the British Museum for specimens collected by Starkie Gardner.
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