| 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: George Albert Boulenger; John Rose Bradford; Hugh Longbourne Callendar; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Harold Bailey Dixon; Frank Watson Dyson; Percy Faraday Frankland; Sir Archibald Geikie (Secretary); William Dobinson Halliburton; Ernest William Hobson; John Wesley Judd; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Joseph Larmor (Secretary); George Downing Liveing; Augustus Edward Hough Love; Adam Sedgwick; William Napier Shaw; Captain Thomas Henry Tizard; 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 were read and signed as correct.
2. List of President, Officers and Members of Council recommended for election at the Anniversary Meeting, leave granted to the Assistant Secretary to release this to the public press.
3. The Copley Medal awarded to Sir William Crookes for researches in spectroscopic chemistry and other topics.
4. The Rumford Medal awarded to Professor Ernest Rutherford for researches into radioactivity.
5. A Royal Medal awarded to Colonel David Bruce for researches in Malta Fever, Nagana and Sleeping Sickness.
6. A Royal Medal awarded to Professor William Burnside, for mathematical research, particularly group theory.
7. The Davy Medal awarded to Professor William Henry Perkin junior, for work in organic chemistry.
8. The Darwin Medal awarded to William Bateson for his contribution to the theory of evolution by research into variation and heredity.
9. The Hughes Medal awarded to Oliver Heaviside for contributions to the mathematical theory of electricity.
10. The Sylvester Medal awarded to Professor Georg Cantor for his researches in theory of aggregates, transfinite numbers and Fourier's series.
11. Appointment of auditors to the Treasurer's accounts.
12. Draft of a letter to the Treasury on the subject of the Meteorological Office discussed, a vote on concessions on postal facilities proposed and lost, the draft letter modified and referred to the Officers.
13. Tenders for the printing of Philosphical Transactions and Proceedings received and referred to the Officers.
14. Resolved that an enlarged Proceedings should be divided into sections for Physical and Biological subjects.
15. Consideration of recommendation 6 of the Committee to consider publishing matters was adjourned.
16. Letter from D. Smith, Son and Oakley communicating the request of the Public Elementary School Committee of Mablethorpe for the sale of land for a playground, the Treasurer to consent at a reasonable price.
17. Application from Dr. Neumayer for the loan of original magnetic observations made by him in Melbourne: the Assistant Secretary reported that these were received at the time, but not found in the Society's present house; they would be loaned if found.
18. Letter from Frank Graham, Chairman of the Lyttleton Harbour Board, 10 September 1904, to Sir William Huggins, full text entered into the minutes: expressing thanks for the appreciation shown to the Harbour Board for granting facilities to the vessels of the National Antarctic Expedition.
19. Letter of report from Dr. Glazebrook on the Electrical Congress at St. Louis.
20. Report of the Soiree Committee with recommendations on the Anniversary Dinner.
21. Report of the Council to Fellows submitted, any amendments to be sent to the Secretaries, who would issue the report.
22. Receipt of 24 glass positives of celestial objects by the late Dr. Isaac Roberts.
23. List of bills for payment, for printing and other services.
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