Minutes of a meeting of Council of the Royal Society Printed minutes containing matters laid before Council, the Royal Society's governing body of Fellows, with records of decisions taken. Commencing with a list of Council members present: William Henry Mahoney Christie; Michael Foster; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher; Hugo Muller; Alfred Newton; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Sir William Roberts; William Chandler Roberts-Austen; Edward Albert Schafer; Sir George Gabriel Stokes; General Richard Strachey; Joseph John Thomson; Thomas Edward Thorpe; Sydney Howard Vines; General James Thomas Walker; the President, Sir William Thomson, in the chair. Also present, by invitation: Thomas George Bonney; Edward Frankland; Alfred Bray Kempe, members of the Statute Revision Committee. Letters read from Professor Boyd Dawkins and Sir William Turner. Draft statutes considered statute-by-statute, with amendments agreed to Chapter 1, Statutes 7- 24. Remaining statutes deferred until next Council. 29 January 1891