| 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Henry Bowman Brady; Charles Baron Clarke; Michael Foster; John Whitaker Hulke; John Wesley Judd; Edward Emanuel Klein; Edwin Ray Lankester; Herbert McLeod; Sir James Paget; William Henry Preece; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe; Edward John Routh; Arthur Rucker; The Treasurer [John Evans]; William James Lloyd Wharton; Alexander William Williamson; the President, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Deaths of John Ball, Charles Spencer Bate, the Rev. Miles Joseph Berkeley, James Prescott Joule, Admiral Sir Robert Spencer Robinson and George West Royston-Piggott. Motion by Sir Henry Roscoe to appoint a committee for a national memorial to Dr. Joule with a list of invitees to the prospective Joule Memorial Committee. Death of T. J. Phillipps Jodrell, instigator of the Jodrell Fund; this to be amalgamated with the Donation Fund. Handley Fund to be used in the publication of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers; Treasury grant of £1,000 for this purpose now invested,, the policy with the Atlas Assurance Company to be lodged with the Society's bankers. Form of receipt for grant-holders of the Government Grant approved by the solicitors, Few & Company. Department of Mines, Sydney, to lend a fossil skull of Thylacopardus to the Royal Society, now received; full text of a letter entered into the minutes, from Edwin Ray Lankester to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 9 September 1889, outlining damage to the skull in transit, not effecting the areas of skull required for referees to examine. Discussion of proposals for medals awards, adjudication deferred to the next meeting. Professor A. W. Williamson statement declining re-election as Foreign Secretary; the office to be limited to a period of four years in future. Nominations for the elections of new Fellows considered. Retirements of Council members and proposals for ten new elections to Council. List of potential new Foreign Members from the Suggestion Book used to draw up a shortlist of candidates, three to be nominated by ballot. Application from the Scottish Meteorological Society for £50 from the Government Grant allocated from the £500 reserve. Publication of the Challenger Report, Zoology vol.32. Invitations to particpate in anniversaries of the Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein, Bremen, and the Philadelphia Philosophical Society. Letter from the Sydney Museum accepting 50 additional copies of the monograph on horny sponges. Report of the Meteorological Council. Manuscript of a report on tides in Netherlands East India waters to be borrowed on behalf of the Dutch Government. Leave granted for electrotypes and copies of illustrations and papers. Bills for printing, binding, books, conversaziones and other goods and services.
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