| 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; William Henry Mahoney Christie; 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; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); 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. Death of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers.
3. List of candidates for Fellowship selected by ballot and recommended for election at the Annual Meeting, the list to be circulated to the press.
4. Motion by James Dewar forbidding the reading of letters respecting candidates' qualifications; an amendment by Arthur Rucker, qualifying that subsequent meetings might read letters replying to direct enquiries authorised by Council, carried.
5. Sir R. Strachey and Sir W. J. L. Wharton nominated to the committee to consider the constitution and duties of the Meteorological Council.
6. Letter from the Secretary of the Meteorological Council forwarding information on superannuation, referred to the Meteorological Council Committee.
7. Senior Secretary appointed to represent the Society on the Council of the International Association of Academies.
8. Letter from Dr. Gill suggesting the extension of the geodetic arc along the 30th meridian: a small committee to prepare a memorandum on the subject to be submitted to the General Assembly of the International Association.
9. Application to the Publication Fund by Dr. A. Havilland referred to the Sectional Committee on Physiology.
10. £50 from the Donation Fund to be allocated to representatives of the Royal Society to the forthcoming conference of the International Catalogue Committee.
11. A reception for the conference of the International Catalogue Committee to be geld on 11 June and a banquet on 13 June.
12. A memorandum on the Society's wishes with regard to bequests was read; ordered to be printed and circulated for next Council.
13. Charles Piazzi Smyth had bequethed £300 in repayment of scientific instrument grants awarded to him from the Government Grant. The previous return of instruments satisfied the terms and therefore the bequest was renounced.
14. Seal of the Society affixed to a certificate authorising the Treasurer to collect interest on the Mackinnon Bequest.
15. Seal of the Society affixed to a Deed of Covenants enabling the Duke of Norfolk to grant leases on property mortgaged to the Royal Society.
16. Letter from Raphael Meldola ofering a portrait of Sir John Evans by A. S. Cope, accepted.
17. Letter from A. S. Cope requesting the Sir John Evans portrait for exhibition at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists autumn exhibition, granted.
18. Leter from Dr. Eldridge-Green requesting the appointment of a committee on colour-blindness, referred to the individual members of the previous committee on the subject.
19. Letter from Marian S. Farquarson, requesting that women be elected to the Royal Society, the Treasurer to report.
20. Request for delegates to the Royal Institute of Public Health at Aberdeen, declined.
21. Dr. Pye-Smith appointed to the Scientific Relief Committee in place of Professor Schafer.
22. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee on awards to applicants.
23. Report of the Kew Committee ordered to be printed in Proceedings.
24. Report on the receipt of £2,000 and £500 from the Treasury, for the Government Grant Fund and the Government Publication Fund.
25. Secretaries reported communicating with the Admiralty and Foreign Office for support in observations of the total solar eclipse on 28 May: including shiiping a party from Gibraltar to Alicante.
26. Letter from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Berlin, in thanks for appointing delegates and an address on the Academy's 200th anniversary.
27. Leave granted to the Meteorological Council to reproduce cloud photographs by Charles Piazzi Smyth.
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