| 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; Robert Bellamy Clifton; Sir John Evans (Treasurer); James Alfred Ewing; Michael Foster; Sir Edward Frankland; Alfred Bray Kempe; Joseph Larmor; Nevil Story Maskelyne; Raphael Meldola; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker; William James Russell; Walter Frank Raphael Weldon; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Letter from the Keeper of the Queen's Privy Purse conveying the Queen's approval in the award of Royal Medals.
3. Bronze medallions of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas Henry Huxley donated by Sir John Evans.
4. Further consideration of the draft letter to the Treasury on the proposed National Physical Laboratory, with a letter from the Chairman of the Meteorological Council: secretaries to amend the draft and circulate it to Council before sending to the Treasury.
5. Dates fixed for the following year's Council Meetings.
6. Revised draft of Council's report to the Fellowship approved.
7. The Secretaries to act as delegates to the centenary celebrations of the Imperial Military Academy of Medicine, St. Petersburg, so long as the visit would advance the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature and the International Association of Academies.
8. Application from Professor A. Gamgee for the purchase of a spectro-goniometer, up to £50 allowed from the Donation Fund.
9. Report of the Catalogue Committee, full text entered into the minutes, on repetition between volumes, with recommendations. An honorarium of £10 10s., to Mr. Griffiths for his work on the subject-index.
10. Report of the Antarctic Committee, recommending £1,000 from the Government Grant Commiittee and £1,000 to be applied for from the British Association, in aid of an Antarctic Expedition.
11. Letters of thanks from Royal Society medallists tabled.
12. Letter of thanks from the Physical Society for the Publication Fuind grant to Science Abstracts.
13. Leave granted for photography of portraits and for copying of illustrations.
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