| 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; Thomas George Bonney; John Cleland; Robert Bellamy Clifton; James Alfred Ewing; Michael Foster; Sir Edward Frankland; Alfred Bray Kempe; John Newport Langley; Joseph Larmor; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Raphael Meldola; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker; William James Russell; Dukinfield Henry Scott; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. Death of Professor Thomas Jeffery Parker.
2. Revision of Standing Order 11, full text entered into the minutes; on selection of candidates for Fellowship and awrd of medals, Sectional Committees not to advise Council unless requested to do so.
3. Professor W. W. Cheyne appointed to Government Grant Board G in place of Professor Horsley.
4. Three year accumulation of income from the Gunning Fund; application of the Fund to be referred to the Sectional Committee for Physics and Chemistry.
5. Letter from the Director of the Armagh Observatory requesting intervention with Government on a grant, referred to the Observatories Committee.
6-7. Applications to the Publication Fund from Professor Lankester and Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner for grants to aid in illustrations, referred to the Sectional Committee for Zoology, Council unwilling to make grants for drawings without guarantee that they would be published.
8. 24 February fixed as the date for the Discussion Meeting on Antarctic exploration, with a committee established to make arrangements.
9. Professor G. H. Darwin nominated as the delegate to the International Geodetic Convention, with the Treasury willing to pay expenses of £7 per night absence from home.
10. Professor A. Gamgee to deliver the Croonian Lecture on 24 March.
11-12. Report of the Observatories Committee, full text entered into the minutes: an opinion on the work of the Bombay Observatory should wait until the visit to India of the Astronomer Royal and J. Norman Lockyer. Clement Wragge's letter on the Tasmanian Meteorological Service and an Observatory on Mount Wellington is not exact on the scope of his proposal, and therefore no opinion can be given.
13. The ordinary edition of Philosophical Transactions to be limited to 800 copies with 50 reserves, the issue in bound volumes 250 copies instead of 432.
14. Dr. G. J. Stoney appointed to serve on the Metric Units Committee.
15. President reported sanctioning the presentation to Professor Fraser of a copy of the archived paper by Fraser and Dr. Tillie on Acokanthera schimperi.
16. Portrait of the late Professor W. H. Miller presented by Professor W. J. Lewis of Cambridge, accepted and thanks given.
17. Treasurer's report on Italian Irrigation bonds for the Gassiot Trust paid off and more purchased.
18. Balance of the Winteringham Fund paid to the Foundling Hospital.
19. Stock purchasing on account of the Fee Reduction Fund.
20-21. List of members of Royal Society staff, with salary increases and a scale of maximum salaries for cataloguing staff.
22. Procedure for selection of candidates for Fellowship discussed and to be considered further.
23. Outstanding cliams of £400 on the estate of Sir W. Mackinnon.
24. Letters of thanks from newly-elected Foreign Members tabled.
25. Letter from the London Missionary Society stating that thanks would be converyed to Captain Hore for assistance with the Coral Reef Boring expedition to Funafuti.
26. Leave granted for copying from the archives and re-publication of illustrations.
27. Bills for paper, lighting and other expenses.
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