| 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; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Sir Andrew Noble; 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. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Deaths of Sir James Paget and Sir Richard Thorne Thorne.
3. Letter on the presentation of thermometers used by Mr. S. A. Sworn, by Mrs. Sworn, accepted: instruments to be deposited with the National Physical Laboratory.
4. Letter from Francis Mowatt, Meteorological Council, 5 January 1900, to Lord Lister, full text entered into the minutes: on his communication with the Treasury, proposing a pension of £400 to Mr. R. H. Scott and a salary of £750 for his successor, Mr. W. N. Shaw. Alteration to the articles of association of the Meteorological Council.
5. Resolved that the Royal Society accepts the role of original Member of the International Association of Academies.
6. Letter from Lord Dillon, Society of Antiquaries, 15 December 1900, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the formation of a British Academy, the idea of a federation of existing societies would not work; a letter from Professsor H. Sidgwick with a plan for a new Academy, both to be submitted to a committee created for the purpose.
7. Report of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee: a sub-committee proposed sending observers to stations in Portugal, Spain and Algeria.
8. Letters from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, to Sir J. Norman Lockyer and to Captain E.H. Hills, on Lockyer's application for a Government Grant of £100 for the purchase of equipment to observe the forthcoming eclipse. The matter to be referred to the Government Grant Board B, with Eclipse Committee correspondence and estimates of costs for the Eclipse Expedition.
9. Consideration of Bakerian and Croonian Lectures deferred.
10. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to the deed of release for the Mackinnon Bequest.
11. Professor J. W. H. Trail appointed to Governemtn Grant Board E, in place of Sir W.T. Thiselton-Dyer.
12. £50 from the Publication Fund granted to Professor S. J. Hickson for two papers to be printed in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science.
13. Application for a grant of £60 from Lieutenant-Colonel Cunningham for the publication of 'New Canon Arithmeticus' referred to the Sectional Committee for Mathematics.
14. £250 from the Publication Fund awarded to the Sandwich Islands Committee for the publication of 'Fauna Hawaiiensis', over two years.
15. Additional application from Mr. P. L. Sclater for £20 to supplement that of Mr. G. A. Boulenger, for collecting freshwater fish from the Senegal River: the reply that these expenses were the responsibility of the British Museum, for which the collecting was being done.
16. On the resuspension of candidates' certificates inadvertently not resuspended, given a year's grace.
17. J. J. Thomson gave notice that he would make a proposal relative to the Meteorological Council at the next meeting.
18. Sir John Evans re-appointed to the governing body of the Imperial Institute.
19. Letter from Lord Rothschild, agreeing that the Sylvester Medal Fund should be secured by a Deed of Trust.
20. Recommendations of the Joint Antarctic Committee on the Executive Committee memorandum and on R. H. Scott's membership of the Joint Committee.
21. Arrears of the Philosophical Transactions granted to Dr. E. Schunck.
22. Re-appointment of Sir Archibald Geikie and Dr. Buchan to the Government Grant Committee.
23. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
24. Bills for paper, printing and other expenses.
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