| 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. Deaths of William Ewart Gladstone and Spencer Horatio Walpole.
2. Death of Norwood, the night porter of Burlington House; £10 previously assigned to his retirement to go to his widow.
3. Secretaries' correspondence with Karl Pearson on a passage in the obituary notice of Professor Sylvester; his request that a page should be cancelled and replaced not justified.
4. Report of the Government Grant Committee, with lists of grants recommended by Boards A-G, with totals and £500 placed at the disposal of President and Council as a Reserve Fund. West India Committee and Sandwich Islands Committees reappointed without grants.
5. Letters from E. H. Hills of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, and H. H. Turner and H. F. Newall, Secretaries of the Royal Astronomical Society on the printing of Eclipse reports; an additional 1,000 copies of the Proceedings versions to be adjusted as an appendix to the Monthly and final reports in Philosophical Transactions to be sent to RAS Fellows.
6. Letter from the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee in reference to the Report of the Government Grant Review Committee, their answer deemed unsatisfactory.
7. Applications for grants from George Murray, for exploration of the intermediate ocean depths and from Major A. St. H. Gibbons for Central Africa Expedition referred to Government Grant Boards for a judgement on their urgency.
8. Letter from the Chairman of the Meteorological Council on the establishment of a system of superannuation at the Meteorological Office, referred to a committee established for the purpose.
9. Report of the Sectional Committee for Physics and Chemistry recommending that monies from the Gunning Fund be allocated to Kew Observatory for thermometer comparisons, approved.
10. Allowance of £6 per week allocated to the Assistant Secretary, his rooms to uninhabitable during the Office of Works alterations in August.
11. Report of the International Catalogue Committee tabled.
12. International Catalogue Committee's request to H.M. Government to call a conference to consider the report.
13. Letter from Sir W. H. Flower, British Museum, thanking the Society for collections made by Dr. C. J. Forsyth Major in Madagascar with aid from the Government Grant.
14. Letter from the Italian Ambassador, donating scientific works, a letter of thanks to be sent in reply.
15. Letter of the Senior Secretary on the election of Fellows considered, no action taken.
16. Omission of certain Council Meetings in the coming year.
17. Letters from the Premier, and Secretary for Mines and Agriculture of New South Wales, and from Professor Sollas, acknowledging communications regarding the Coral Reef Boring Expedition.
18. Leave granted to Dr. F. E. Batten to copy his paper on degenerative changes in muscles and to have returned a watercolour illustration.
19. Leave granted for copying and reproduction of illustrations.
20. Bills for printing, binding and other expenses.
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