| 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; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Edwin Ray Lankester; 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 President, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, 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. Deaths of Mr. R. Warington and M. Bertholet: Mr. Pickering and Sir William Ramsay requested to write Obituary Notices.
3. The Bakerian Lecture mentioned, enquiries to be made of Dr. T.E. Thorpe on his investigation of the atmomic weight of radium.
4. Lists of names of candidates for Foregn Membership of the Royal Society considered, with names added to the Suggestion Book: a final list developed from which names would be selected at next Council.
5. Drafts of addresses to be presented to the Royal University of Upsala and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, full text entered into the minutes.
6. Application from Sir David Gill for a grant of £350 towards a sum of £2,000 being raised for extending the work of measuring the African Geodetic Arc, now in progress: a grant of £350 to be offered from the Reserve Fund of the Government Grant on condition that the £2,000 is raised, a committee formed to adminster this.
7. Letter from Lord Cromer, British Agency, Cairo, 1 April 1907, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, full text entered into the minutes: on the quality of well water in Cairo and the formation of a committee of three, English, French and German, to make independent testing; Council considers the candidates to be of high eminence, but if bacteriological elements are most important, suggests Mr. Houston as English representative, as an alternative to Dr. T.E. Thorpe.
8. The President requested to address a leter of congratulation to Lord Lister on his 80th birthday.
9. The Treasurer appointed as Royal Society representative to the centenary of the Geological Society.
10. Dr. W.N. Shaw appointed to replace Sir W.T. Thiselton-Dyer, who was unable to attend the General Assembly of the International Association of Academies.
11. Professor S.P. Thompson appointed to represent the Royal Society on the Exectuive Committee of the Franco-British Exhibition (1908).
12. Sir Henry Roscoe appointed to represent the Royal Society at the Federal Conference on Education, 24 May-1 June.
13. Seal of the Royal Society affixed to the assignment of the Westwood Estate to the Trustees of the Meteorological Office.
14. Report and accounts of the National Physical Laboratory received and copies to be sent to the Treasury.
15. Treasurer reported the receipt of £3,000 from H.M. Treasury as the first part of the 1907-1908 grant to the National Physical Laboratory, with £5,000 as a grant for new buildings and equipment expenditure.
16. Leave granted to republish papers by Lord Lister in an edition of his scientific papers being prepared in connection with his 80th birthday.
17. Leave granted to republish papers and to have copies of illustrations.
18. List of bills for payment, for engraving, books, and for other expenses.
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