| 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; William Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Frederick Orpen Bower; Charles Vernon Boys; William Burnside; William Watson Cheyne; George Carey Foster; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Sir John Eldon Gorst; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Henry Alexander Miers; James Emerson Reynolds; Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Thomas Edward Thorpe; Herbert Hall Turner; the President, Sir William Huggins, 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. Joseph Larmor to be appointed to the International Council of the Catalogue, in place of Arthur Rucker.
5. Joseph Larmor appointed as Royal Society delegate on the Executive Committee of the International Council of the Catalogue, in place of Arthur Rucker.
6. Letter from the Director of the International Catalogue, proposing a sale price of £18 per set to the public, trade discount at 10%, approved.
7. Letter from Austen Chamberlain, Treasury Chambers, 5 December 1901, to the President of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: an additional £1,700 added to the costs of the National Physical Laboratory, to be regarded as final; with a reply from the Secretaries, urging an increase to £2,000.
8. Treasurer authorised to borrow £2,000 from the Society's bankers for use by the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
9. Lists of appointments to the Executive Committee and the General Board of the National Physical Laboratory.
10. List of Royal Society Committees with Chairs and appointments for the ensuing year: Library Committee; Soiree Committee; House Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee; Challenger Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Coral Reef Committee; Tsetse Fly Committee; Evolution Committee; Government Grant Review Committee; Observatories Committee; Malaria Committee; Finance Committee; Indian Government Advisory Committee; Joint Antarctic Committee; Mackinnon Bequest Committee; Hughes Bequest Committee; International Exploration of the Sea Committee; Internatiional Association of Academies Committee. Sectional Committees: Mathematics Committee; Physics and Chemistry Committee; Geology Committee; Botany Committee; Zoology Committee; Physiology Committee. Government Grant Boards A-G.
11. Professor Armstrong's resolution that the Assistant Secretary should write to all Council Members at the start of each season, for receiving regular notices of Sectional Committee meetings.
12. Recommendation of the Soiree Committee for a Summer Dinner approved, following a withdrawn resolution on guests by the Senior Secretary.
13. International Assdociation for Academies Committe empowered to take actions before the next meeting of Council.
14. Letter from Dr. S. Calandruccio disputing the award of the 1896 Darwin Medal to Professor G. B. Grassi: a letter from E. Ray Lankester had been received on the subject, which was referred to the Sectional Committees for Zoology and Physiology.
15. Letter from Dr. H. Gadow requesting a grant of £150 to assist in the zoological exploration of Mexico, approved from the Donation Fund.
16. Letter from Professor A. Gamgee requestiung a grant of in aid of researches on haemoglobin; £50 to be granted on the approval of the Chair of the Sectional Committee for Physiology.
17. £40 granted to defray the expenses of reducing the meteorological and magnetical observations of the Southern Cross Antarctic Expedition.
18. Grant of £500 to be made towards the fund for the Royal Geographical Society's relief ship for the Antarctic Expedition.
19. Professor A. Gamgee be invited to give the Croonian Lecture on 13 March 1902 on the physico-chemical properties of haemoglobin.
20. Professor J. J. Thomson be invited to deliver the Bakerian Lecture, on the subject of his research on ions.
21. Letter forwarding a minute from the Meteorological Council on disbursing £1,000 in Treasury funds, approved.
22. Report of the Royal Society's delegates to the celebration in honour of M. Bertholet.
23. Invitation from Owens College, Manchester, to send a representative to the jubilee, Lord Kelvin to be asked first.
24. Letter from Lord Kelvin on the Memorial Fund to Lord Armstrong, £10 from the Donation Fund to be allocated.
25. Letter from the Rev. W. Potter, on a fund for a monument to Sir Ferdinand von Muller, no action to be taken.
26. Informal reception of Fellows to be held on 23 January 1902.
27. Increases to staff salaries and wages: Miss Brenner, F. B. Bull, R. L. Sheppard, F. Fitzgerald, and A. Lewis.
28. Report of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, full text entered into the minutes: on arrangements to observe the eclipse of 18 May 1901.
29. Leave granted for copying illustrations and reprinting papers.
30. Bills for accountants, engraving, medals, and other expenses.
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