| 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: William Grylls Adams; Thomas Clifford Allbutt; Robert Bellamy Clifton; William Turner Thiselton Dyer; James Alfred Ewing; Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; William Holbrook Gaskell; Alfred George Greenhill; William Huggins; Charles Lapworth; Major Percy Alexander MacMahon; Raphael Meldola; William Ramsay; Arthur William Rucker; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton; the President, Sir Joseph Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. Deaths of Dr. Edward Ballard and Professor E. H. Du Bois Reymond.
2. The President to write to the India Office, drawing their attention to the statement that an anti-toxin for bubonic plague had been discovered and offering the Society's help to obtain further information.
3. Letter from the Royal Society of Canada on the unification of time: draft reply amended and ordered to be sent, full text entered into the minutes: while recognising the strength of the argumants, the Royal Society was not of the opinion that it would be possible to introduce changes into the Nautical Almanac, although a committee would be set up to investigate the matter further.
4. Committee appointed to consider the question of the unification of time.
5. Professor C. S. Sherrington to be invited to deliver the Croonian Lecture, on the spinal cord and reflex actions.
6. Lists of replacement Fellows to serve on Government Grant Boards A-G and elections of Board Chairmen.
7. Lists of names of candidates for Foreign Membership from the Suggestion Book, a longlist devised from which to draw six names to be nominated by ballot.
8. Letter from the Director of the Science and Art Department, Dublin, requesting that complete sets specimens collected in Ireland under the Government Grant should be deposited in Irish museums; a reply to be drafted to say that this would be done, as far as was possible.
9. Professor A. H. Church appointed a Trustee of the Soane Museum in place of Sir W. H. Flower.
10. Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer appointed to the governing body of Westminster School.
11. Draft of regulations for the administration of the Scientific Relief Fund, full text entered into the minutes: provisionally approved.
12. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee, recommending that £100 be placed with Professor Carey Foster, for the benefit of an applicant, approved.
13. Report of the Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee, including staff changes and salaries, approved.
14. Report of the Sectional Committee for Botany, recommending a grant of £60 to the Linnnean Society for the publication of the late John Ball's paper and declining to recommend publication of Professor Marshall Ward's paper to the Water Research Committee in its current form, approved.
15. A congratulatory letter to be addressed to Dr. Anton Dohrn on the 25th anniversary of the Zoological Station at Naples.
16. An enamelled portrait of John Whitehurst offered by Alexander R. Binnie accepted, with thanks.
17. Offer of a portrait of Sir Humphry Davy referred to the Treasurer.
18. Conference of Presidents of learned societies to be summoned to consider actions to commemorate the reign of Queen Victoria.
19. Loan requests from the Committees of the Victorian Loan Exhibitions at Crystal Palace and Earl's Court, declined.
20. Letter of thanks from Professor S. Cannizzaro tabled.
21. Dr. J. A. Harker depositing a paper 'On the determination of freezing points' in the archives.
22. Letters of thanks from newly-elected Foreign Members.
23. Re-appointments to the Government Grant Committee of Sir Archibald Geikie and Dr. A. Buchan, with the Earl of Rosse and Professor A. Macalister.
24. Dividends from the Winteringham Fund to be paid to the Secretary of the Foundling Hospital.
25. Leave granted to J. Norman Lockyer to repurpose papers within a forthcoming book and to the Editor of Nature for electrotypes of illustrations from Miss Ogilvie's paper.
26. Bills for printing and other expenses.
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