| 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; Sir Robert Stawell Ball; 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: the minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
1. List of candidates for Fellowship considered and selected by ballot to be recommended for election at the Annual Meeting, 9 June.
2. Letter from the Secretary of the Admiralty noting that the vessel H.M.S. Porpoise would carry stores to Suva Town and convey the Coral Boring Expedition party to Funafuti.
3. Letter from the Royal Geographical Society with nominations to serve on the Joint Committee to consider and Antarctic expedition.
4. Letter from J. F. D. Donnelly, the Secretary of the Science and Art Department, 12 April 1898, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the Treasury's refusal to sanction recompense to Professor Sollas, who has since resigned from the Geological Survey. A grant of £50 from the Donation Fund to be made to Professor Sollas in recognition of his sevices to the Coral Boring Expedition.
5. Mr. Salvin to take over the Chair of Government Grant Board F, in the absence of Mr. Godman.
6. Letter inviting the Society to nominate delegates to a meeting of the Academies of Gottingen. Leipzig, Vienna and Munich in May; Michael Foster, A. W. Rucker, Professor Armstrong and Arthur Schuster to attend, noting that any adhesion to the Association of Academies and Scientific Societies must be truly international and include other nations, particularly France.
7. Report of the Government Grant Review Committee considered further, with recommendations, including on auditing.
8. Estimate from Messrs. Drake & Gorham on extending electric lighting in the building to replace gas lighting, approved.
9. Apartments of the Royal Society to be closed in August, to allow alterations to drainage and sanitary fittings proposed by the Office of Works.
10. Application to the Publication Fund from Dr. J. N. Langley, requesting £45 for the publication of three papers in the Journal of Physiology, approved.
11. Letter from the Board of Trade conveying thanks for the Society's assistance on the question of metric units; the Society's reply.
12. Letter from the Executors of the Estate of Sir William Mackinnon, requesting the Society's approval in charging to the Estate two additional school accounts of young William Mackinnon, approved.
13. Letter from the Research Society U.S.A., submitting observations and proposals regarding an Antarctic Expedition, acknowledged.
14. Discrepencies in dip observations from Falmouth Observatory investigated by Mr. W. Watson and £15 from the Donation Fund voted to him for services in preparing his report.
15. Further consideration of the Soiree Committee's recommendations on the Annual Dinner deferred.
16. Receipt of £2,000 on account of the Government Grant and £500 on account of the Publication Fund received.
17. £10 authorised as a contribution to the subscription to benefit Norwood, the night porter of Burlington House, on his retirement due to illness.
18. Letter of thanks from Professor J. Willard Gibbs on his election as a Foreign Member.
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