| 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: Thomas George Bonney; Captain Ettrick William Creak; James Dewar; Michael Foster (Secretary); Sir Edward Frankland (Foreign Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; William Abbott Herdman; Victor Horsley; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor; Nevil Storey Maskelyne; Sir Andrew Noble; Edward Bagnell Poulton; Arthur William Rucker (Secretary); William James Russell; Arthur Schuster; Dukinfield Henry Scott; George Johnstone Stoney; Joseph John Thomson; the President, Lord Lister, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Assistant Secretary authorised to release the names of candidates for Fellowship to the press.
3. Congratulatory address to Sir George Gabriel Stokes, for the Cambridge celebration: full text entered into the minutes.
4. Five Foreign members nominated by ballot, to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting: Professor Ludwig Boltzmann, Professor Anton Dorn, Professor Emil Fischer, Dr. Georg Neumayer, Dr. Melchior Treub.
5. List of nominations from technical societies to serve on the General Board of the proposed National Physical Laboratory; with a list of appointments and nominations to the Executive Committee; further nominations deferred to next Council. Letter from the Secretaries of the Royal Society, 9 May 1899, to members of the Executive Committee of the Laboratory, full text entered into the minutes.
6. £410 from the Publication Fund voted for ten papers to be published in the Philosophical Transactions.
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