| 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: John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury; Sir Benjamin Baker; Dr. Henry Frederick Baker; John Norman Collie; Francis Darwin (Foreign Secretary); Wyndham Rowland Dunstan; David Ferrier; Sir Archibald Geikie (Foreign Secretary); Sydney John Hickson; Sir William Huggins; Joseph Larmor (Secretary); Hugh Frank Newall; Dr. Alexander Scott; Albert Charles Seward; William Johnson Sollas; Ernest Henry Starling; Silvanus Phillips Thompson; Augustus Desire Waller; the Treasurer, Alfred Bray Kempe, in the chair. The Assistant Secretary [Robert Harrison] attended.
Among matters discussed or noted:
New members of Council subscribed to the declaration in lieu of the oath.
1. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed as correct.
2. Appointment of Vice-Presidents for the year.
3. Appointment of committees, with lists of members: Antarctic Magnetic Observations Committee; Antarctic Meteorological Observations Committee; Catalogue of Scientific Papers Committee; Challenger Reports Committee; Evolution Committee; Finance Committee; Indian Government Advisory Committee; International Catalogue Committee; Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee; Library Committee; Observations of Eros Committee; Observatories Committee; Scientific Relief Committee; Seismology Committee; Soiree Committee; Solar Research Committee; Tropical Diseases Committee. Sectional Committees for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Physiology.
4. Appointment of Government Grant Boards A-G.
5. Appointments of members to the General Board and Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory.
6. Letter, from Arthur Schuster, Victoria Park, Manchester, 6 November 1906, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: a report on the meeting of Council of the International Association of Academies; sections of the report dealing with the International Union for Solar Research and with Meteorology, referred on.
7. Committee to formulate proposals to the next General Assembly created, in response to a letter from the Directing Academy of the International Association.
8. Letter from Arthur Schuster, Victoria Park, Manchester, 6 November 1906, to the Secretaries of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: a report on the meeting of the International Seismological Association in Rome, referred to the Seismology Committee; in response to a request from the Strassburg Bureau, Council reiterated their position that all U.K. seismological reports should be collected and transmitted by Professor Milne.
9. Letter from the Physical Society noting that numbers of their Fellows would be willing to subscribe per annum in order to receive the Proceedings: a rate of 21s. per annum set, so long as a minimum of 50 Fellows subscribed per year.
10. Professor Perry re-appointed as a Royal Society representative to the Joint Scholarships Board.
11. Application on behalf of Dr. C.W. Andrews for £100 to enable palaeontological reseraches in Egypt, granted from the Government Grant Reserve Fund.
12. Selection of the Croonian and Bakerian Lecturers deferred.
13. Application from the British School at Athens for a grant to work on the site of ancient Sparta declined.
14. Report from the Sectional Committee for Zoology, recommending that Professor Lankester's resolution on the continuation of North Sea research be endorsed: Council to write to the Treasury accordingly.
15. Treasurer reported the receipt of £5,000, the second part of the grant in aid of buildings and equipment for the the National Physical Laboratory.
16. Secretaries reported the receipt of a letter from H.M. Treasury stating that Treasury would be willing to submit to Parliament and estimate of a grant in connection with the National Physical Laboratory for 1907-1908.
17. Letter from E.H. Hills, Secretary of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, to the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: forwarding an annual report and stating that the committee had no suggestions for modifications to the existing committee arrangements.
18. Leave granted for copies of illustrations.
19. List of bills for payment for engraving, lighting and accountants' fee.
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