| 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: Henry Edward Armstrong; Charles Vernon Boys; Horace Tabberer Brown; William Henry Mahoney Christie; Edwin Bailey Elliott; Sir Michael Foster (Secretary); Hans Friedrich Gadow; William Mitchinson Hicks; Alfred Bray Kempe (Treasurer); Lord Lister; William Carmichael McIntosh; Ludwig Mond; Arnold William Reinold; James Emerson Reynolds; Arthur Rucker (Secretary); Robert Henry Scott; Charles Scott Sherrington; Joseph Wilson Swan; Jethro Justinian Harris Teall; Thomas Edward Thorpe (Foreign Secretary); the President, Sir William Huggins, in the chair.
Among matters discussed or noted:
1. Minutes of the last meeting read and approved.
2. Death of Professor Henry G. Hennessy.
3. Professor Franz von Leydig nominated as a Foreign Member, to be proposed at the next Ordinary Meeting.
4. List of candidates for Fellowship, to be recommended for election at the Annual Meeting: the list to be circulated to the Press.
5. Letter from the Royal Geographical Society on appointments to the Joint Antrarctic Committee.
6. Report that the small joint committee to consider the instructions for the Antarctic Expedition had commenced, noting membership.
7. Applications to be invited for the Mackinnon Studentship.
8. Income from the Gunning Fund had accumulated for three years; its application to be referred to the Sectional Committees on Zoology, Botany and Physiology for a joint report.
9. Secretary to inform the Berlin Academy that selection for the biennial award of the Joule Studentship lies with them.
10. Applications received for the Publication Fund: all monies had been allocated for the year, therefore no further grants to be made.
11. P. L. Sclater nominated as a delegate to the 5th International Congress on Zoology.
12. The Secretaries to apply for the renewal of the Royal Medals [under King Edward VII] via the Keeper of the Privy Purse.
13. No Press reporters to attend the Special Meeting of 9 May.
14. Sir Joseph Hooker's presentation of a Wedgwood medallion of Sir William Herschel.
15. Leave granted to reproduce papers and illustrations.
16. Bills for advertising, books, paper and other expenses.
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