| 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; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); 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. Deaths of Dr. A. A. Common and Professor L. Cremona; Professor Turner to write the obituary of Dr. Common and the Foreign Secretary to arrange a notice for Professor Cremona.
3. Letter from Professor H. E. Armstrong dissenting on reports of committees and contesting their conclusions.
4. Report of the Committee appointed to consider the functions of Sectional Committees; the matter on whether they should advise Council on Fellowship candidates and the award of medals to be put to a special meeting.
5. Report of the Committee on the Improvement of Scientific Education to be considered at next Council.
6. Treasurer reported an anonymous donation of £1,000 towards the completion of the Catalogue and Index of Scientific Papers.
7. Draft letter, A. B. Kempe to Dr. Moody, full text entered into the minutes: requesting the return of £50 from the Government Grant, on pain of legal proceedings.
8-9. Correspondence between Sir William Huggins, A. J. Balfour, the Royal Society's Secretaries, and Sir Clements Markham, full text entered into the minutes: on Balfour's statement in the House of Commons on a relief ship for the 'Discovery' and disgeeements between the Royal Society and Royal Geographical Society.
10. Letter from the Royal Geographical Society stating the urgency of defraying the costs of the relief ship 'Morning' in New Zealand; the Treasurer empowered to act at the Finance Committee of the Antarctic Expedition.
11. Letter from Captain Creak on simultaneous magnetic observations between South Polar expeditions, referred to the Committee appointed for the purpose.
12. Report of Sir Michael Foster on the Council of the International Association of Academies.
13. Repeal of statutes on the timing of election of Fellows, with new draft statutes, full text entered into the minutes.
14. Appplication from Sir W. B. Hardy for a grant to purchase radium bromide, £100 allocated from the Donation Fund, to be adminstered by a small committee, for the purpose of allocating materials to assist research.
15. Scheme for the incorporation of the proposed Marine Biological Laboratory in Bermuda, with full text of a draft letter to the Colonial Office offering broad support without financial commitment.
16. Restrictions on re-appointments to the Executive Committee or the General Board of the National Physical Laboratory considered, with an addition to regulations submitted to the Treasury.
17. Application from the Editor of the Windsor Magazine to compile an article on the Royal Society: permission given to take photographs, subject to the article being submitted for approval by the Secretaries.
18. Letter from the Foreign Office with a note from the Government of the Congo Free State proposing an international commission to investigate Sleeping Sickness: the Malaria and Tsetse Fly Committee recommending that this would serve no useful purpose.
19. Thanks given to Drs. Christopher, Daniels and Stephens for their work investigating malaria.
20. Message of welcome from the Royal Society to be sent to the International Meteorological Committee meeting at Southport.
21. Adjudication of Royal Society medals: list of names added to the minutes to be proposed and seconded at a later meeting.
[not numbered] Leave granted to make an illustration of the Society's bust of Sir Isaac Newton, for Oliver Lodge's 'Life of Newton'.
[not numbered] Bills for printing, engraving and other expenses.
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