| 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; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; Ludwig Mond; Arnold William Reinold; Arthur Rucker (Secretary); Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Two memorials on the tenure of office of future Officers: various amendments voted upon, with the original motion proposed by Lord Armstrong passed, limiting the period of office to no more than ten years.
3. List of President, Officers and Council members recommended for the forthcoming year, to be communicated to the public papers.
4-8. Adjudication of medals: Professor J. Willard Gibbs (Copley Medal); Professor William Edward Ayrton (Royal Medal); Dr. William Thomas Blanford (Royal Medal);; Professor George Downing Liveing (Davy Medal); Professor Henry Poincare (Sylvester Medal).
9. Appointment of auditors for the Treasurer's acounts.
10. Draft report of Council to the Fellows amended and adopted.
11. Treasurer proposed an amendment to the regulations of the Publication Fund, adopted.
12. Application for £80 from the Publication Fund from Lieutenant-Colonel A. Cunningham for printing Quadratic Partitions tables; deferred to next January, in accordance with the new regulation.
13. Fellows to be allowed to purchase the new edition of the Record at cost price.
14. Resolution to purchase a galvanometer for use in the Society's meeting.
15. List of Fellows printed in quarto to be discontinued, titles and addresses of Fellows to be given in full in the Yearbook.
16. Letter from Professor W. A. Herdman requesting that the £100 balance of a Government Grant to Messrs. N. Annandale and H. C. Robinson be used to assist in zoological exploration of the Malay Native States of Siam; approval from the Chairman of Board F and Council approval.
17. Report on the Gunning Fund, recommending that a grant be allotted to Dr. W. H. R. Rivers for his expedition to Southern India in 1902, to obseve hill tribes, approved, conditional on the consent of the Sectional Committee on Botany.
18. Dr. P. Manson appointed to the Sectional Committee on Physiology in place of Dr. J. N. Langley.
[not numbered]. The Sectional Committee on Physiology had reported unfavourably on the proposed investigation into beri-beri on Christmas Island, the subject of a grant application for £300; the investigation would proceed at the expense of Sir John Murray.
[not numbered]. Bills for printing and other expenses.
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