| 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: Thomas George Bonney; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Nevil Storey Maskelyne; Sir Andrew Noble; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); William James Russell; Dukinfield Henry Scott; George Johnstone Stoney; 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 H.M. the Queen's approval of the award of Royal Medals.
3. James Bryce nominated to Council in place of Sir John Murray, who had declared himself unable to serve.
4. Report of the International Catalogue Committee, full text entered into the minutes: on a compromise between the procedures suggested by the German Government and the Royal Society's preferences.
5. Proposed draft of statutes on an International Association of Academies, full text entered into the minutes: including lists of participating institutions. The Royal Society to be the representative body for UK science, and to write to men of letters with a view to finding a representative for the literary and philosophical section.
6. Officers' report on the National Antarctic Expedition: including on the appointment of an Executive Committee and the creation of a general plan of operations for the Expedition, the composition of expedition staff, provisioning and other matters.
7. Letter from Clements R. Markham, Royal Geographical Society, 14 November 1899, to Lord Lister, full text entered into the minutes: on retaining powers of expenditure for the Joint Antarctic Committee.
8. Sir William Wharton to be appointed to the Joint Antarctic Committee.
9. Provisional Council meeting dates for the 1899-1900 session.
10. Publication of the annual accounts of the Royal Society in the new form approved by the Finance Committee.
11. Letters of thanks from medallists tabled.
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