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: Lazarus Fletcher; Michael Foster; Edward Frankland; Walter Holbrook Gaskell; William Huggins; Alexander Blackie William Kennedy; Horace Lamb; Edwin Ray Lankester; Charles Lapworth; John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh; Arthur William Rucker; Osbert Salvin; the Treasurer, Sir John Evans; Harry Marshall Ward; Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton; the President, Sir Joseph Lister, in the chair. Among matters discussed or noted: minutes of the last meeting read and approved. Treasurer's advance to the Coral Reef Committee increased from £250 to £350. Letter from General Strachey asking to be excused from chairing Government Grant Board B, owing to ill-health; William Cawthorne Unwin elected in his place. Communication from Mr. A. B. Kempe on proposed changes to Standing Orders on meetings and publications read: these would be in conflict with the Society's Statutes and therefore the Statutes must be changed, or the new Standing Orders abandoned. Two schemes, A and B, are proposed to overcome the difficulty, with the full text of each entered into the minutes. Council debated and proposed a variety of amendments to Statutes, further consideration of which was postponed. 5 March 1896