| 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: Horace Tabberer Brown: James Bryce; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Arnold William Reinold; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); George Johnstone Stoney; George James Symons; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Edward Burdett Tylor; Sir Samuel Wilks; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. New members of Council subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath.
2. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
3. Appointment of Vice-Presidents.
4. Report of the Government Grant Review Committee, full text entered into the minutes: on proposed changes to Board structure, insufficient evidence to reach a decision; no recommendation on a Board for bacteriology.
5-27. Appointment of committees with lists of members: Library Committee; Soiree Committee; House Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Paper Committee; Challenger Committee; Gunning Fund Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; International Catalogue Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Coral Reef Committee; Delta Boring Committee; Tsetse Fly Committee. Evolution Committee; Government Grant Review Committee; Observatories Committee; International Floating Observatory Committee; Malaria Committee; Finance Committee; Indian Government Advisory Committee; Joint Antarctic Committee; Privileged Classes Committee.
28. Lists of appointments to Sectional Committees on Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Physiology.
29. Lists of appointments to Government Grant Boards A-G.
30. Correspondence between Arthur W. Rucker and Sir Richard Strachey, 2-6 December 1899, full text entered into the minutes: on actions taken in response to the retirement of R. H. Scott as Secretary to the Meteorological Council; a letter drafted to the Treasury approving of the Council's course of action.
31. An informal reception of Fellows to be held on 18 January 1900.
32. The Foreign Secretary and Mr. Ramsay to act as delegates to the anniversary of the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin.
33. Purchase of a plaster copy of a bust of Sir Humphry Davy, restored by Miss Levick.
34. Lord Rothschild to be asked to execute a Trust Deed for the Sylvester Medal Fund.
35. Salary increases for members of Royal Society staff: Mr. James and Mr. White, Mr. Chapman, A. L. Roberts, and F. Bull.
36. Letter from the Royal Geographical Society agreeing to the Royal Society appointments to the Joint Antarctic Committee.
37. Application for a grant of £100 from Sir Norman Lockyer for the purchase of an achromatic lens for use during the total eclipse of 1900, referred to the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee.
38. The barometer used by Charles Darwin aboard H.M.S. Beagle presented to the Royal Society by Professor G, H. Darwin.
39. Bills for lithography, engraving, gold for medals from Johnson, Matthey & Company, and other expenses.
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