| 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: William Bateson; William Thomas Blanford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin; Harold Bailey Dixon; Michael Foster (Secretary); George Carey Foster; Sir John Gorst; John Wesley Judd; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Lord Lister; George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Henry Alexander Miers; Edward Albert Schafer; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); Thomas Henry Tizard; Herbert Hall Turner; Sir John Wolfe Barry; the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the previous meeting read and approved.
2. Death of Mr. A. F. Osler and Professor J. Willard Gibbs: Dr. W. J. Russell and Professor Larmor to write the respective Obituary Notices.
3. List of candidates for Fellowship to be recommended for election at the annual meeting on 11 June.
4. Resolution that the Foreign Office should apply for copies of the magnetic and meteorological observations made under the auspices of the Greman Government South Polar Expedition.
5. Resolution to form a committee to deal promptly with the meteorological and magnetic observations of the Antarctic Expedition as the come in.
6. Committee appointed to consider approaching the Government for Antarctic Expedition assistance made the recommendation to wait for a definite statement in Captain Scott's report that he intended to overwinter for a second time. Correspondence with Sir Clements Markham was read, urging an immediate application to the British Government, but the committee's advice was approved.
7. Date of Ladies' soiree to clash with conferring of degrees at London University, the date agreed to be Friday 19 June.
8. Sir William Abney nominated to serve as the Royal Society representative on the Advisory Board for MIlitary Education.
9. Government Grant Board B recommendations on an application for £250 to support Meteorological Society observations by kite and steamer on the West Coast of Scotland: the Admiralty to be approached for a steamer to assist the committee concerned.
10. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to an address for the celebration of the centenary of John Dalton's atomic theory by the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester.
11. Resolution rescinding restrictions on re-appointments to the Executive Board of the Natuonal Physical Laboratory.
12. Letter from J. Stanley Gardiner on a proposed expedition to explore the Indian Ocean between Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and Madagascar: application to be made at a suitable time to the Admiralty and to the Government of India, a small committee appointed to give effect to the resolution.
13. Letter from Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall on publishing his memoir on 'Blood Immunity' in book form: £60 allocated from the Publication Fund to assist.
14. Committee appointed to consider the Royal Society's publications: rapidity of publication, improvements to Proceedings, durability of paper for illsurations, and the form of Philosophical Transactions.
15. Application from the Challenger Society for permission to meet in the Society's rooms, four times per year, granted for one year.
16. Report of the Committee on Smoke Abatement, referred by the Royal Society to a sub-committee of the National Physical Laboratory, to assist London County Council. Stove tests proposed by LLondon County Council would be valuable, but would likely duplicate results from 1882. A more permanent organisation would be desirable, to collect trustworthy information, make experiments and promote public education. Costs and methods are set out, with the recommendation that the Royal Society disassociate itself from any suggestion of compulsary legislation based upon such enquiies and that the committee should continue. Draft of a letter, Secretaries of the Royal Society to London County Council, sending the report to the Council.
17. Discussion deferred of the appointment by the Royal Society of a member of the Court of the University of Liverpool.
18. Letter from Colonel F. Spratt Bowring offering a photograph of the late Admiral Spratt F.R.S., donation accepted.
19. Letter from the Foreign Office enclosoing a note from the German Government requestiing representatives to the Seismological Congress at Strasburg.
20. Letter from the Director, British Museum (Natural History), acknowledging receipt of part of the Funafuti Coral Reef Collection.
21. Leave granted for copies of illustrations, including Tempest Anderson's volcano eruption images.
22. Bills for paper, engraving and other expenses.
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