| 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Vernon Boys; Horace Tabberer Brown; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; William Carmichael McIntosh; Ludwig Mond; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. J. W. Swan, as a new members of Council, subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath
2. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
3. Deaths of Lord Armstrong, Sir John Conroy, Dr. William Pole and Professor Charles Hermite.
4. Report of the Astronomical Papers Committee, on the matter of republishing Royal Society papers in Royal Astronomical Society journals Recommendations to proceed, so long as there is no infringement of the Royal Society's priority of publication.
5. Letter from Lord Esher, H.M. Office of Works, 22 December 1900, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on terms for the occupation of Bushy House by the National Physical Laboratory. A reply to be sent and the terms to be agreed upon, subject to clarifications from the Office of Works.
6. Revised Articles of Association of the Meteorological Council considered and the names of suitable Directors to be suggested for the consideration of Council.
7. J. H. Gladstone re-appointed to the Joint Scholarships Board.
8. Professor A. G. Greenhill appointed to the Sectional Committee on mathematics in place of G. H. Darwin.
9. Difficulties having arisen in storing Government Grant apparatus at the South Kensington Museum, the Secretary to consult the Government Grant Boards on the desirability of selling items, proceeds to be credited to the Government Grant account.
10. Application from the Director of the Meteorological Office, Victoria, British Columbia, for a copy of the Krakatoa Report, granted.
11. £25 from the Donation Fund awarded to Dr. A. Gamgee for researches on the photographic spectra of haemoglobin.
12. Treasurer authorised to pay the annual contribution of a Fellow, from the Scientific Relief Fund.
13. Letter from the Secretary of the Naval and Military Exhibition, requesting Royal Society support, declined.
14. Report of the British Academy Committee considered, Professor Armstrong to move that it would be undesirable to create a British Academy at next Council.
15. Letter from Clements R. Markham, Royal Geographical Society, 10 December 1900, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: noting ownership of the vessel Discovery and on the post-Expedition sale of the vessel. Treasury's opinion to be sought.
16. Letter from the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, on the General Meeting of the International Association of Academies, proposing the mutual loan of manuscripts.
17. A. D. Waller recommended aas a member of the International Committee on Standardizing Physiological Instruments.
18. Letter from Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer suggesting that the Challenger Committee and the Indian Government Advisory Committee should be discontinued: the Secretary to explaining that President and Coucnil thought them necessary.
19. Letter from the President of the Royal Microscopical Society, requesteing assistance in publishing abstracts: the reply to be that the Publication Fund should not be used for that purpose.
20. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a discharge to the Executors of Dr. R. H. Gunning.
21. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to a tenancy agreement for rooms in Southampton Street used by the Central Bureau of the Interantional Catalogue of Scientific Literature.
22. Report of the Scientific Relief Committee on sums awarded for the benefit of applicants.
23. The Sylvester Medal to be awarded for the encouragement of mathematical research regardless of nationality.
24. Treasure authorised to pay the balance of the Wintringham Fund to the Foundling Hospital.
25. Report of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee: letters to be addressed to the Secertary of State for Foreign Affairs and to the Admiralty, requesting assistance for the Eclipse Expeditions to Sumatra in 1902.
26. Report of the African Arc Committee: noting that the arc being measured in Rhodesia [Zimbabwe] should continue northward and might connect with Struve's Russian arc; additional proposals to be discussed with Lord Salisbury by Sir David Gill; and the scheme to be discussed by the International Association of Academies.
27. Leave granted to J. B. Pettigrew to copy one of his papers and for the copying of illustrations.
28. Bills for books, fitting up pictures, gold and silver from Johnson Matthey and Company and for other expenses.
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