IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 0117 CMC
Held at: Royal Society
Title: Council Minutes Copy
Date(s): 1663-1822
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 8 volumes
Name of creator(s): Royal Society
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
These Council Minutes were created at the end of the eighteenth century at the same time as the Journal Books Copy and continued to the early nineteenth century for security reasons.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Minutes of the meetings of the Royal Society Council from 1663, concerned with the business and administration of the Society. Entries record discussions of all matters relating to the Society's constitution, activities, awards, funds, bequests, buildings, staff and other administrative matters.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
By date.
Conditions governing access:
Open
Conditions governing reproduction:
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Physical characteristics:
Leather bound volumes.
Finding aids:
Card index to Volume 2 by Jennifer Relvyn Bray, a supplement to the name index to Thomas Birch's 'History of the Royal Society' (London, 1756).
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
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ALLIED MATERIALS
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Related material:
Council Minutes Original from 1663- ; rough minutes with some fair copies in MSG/629-647, 19 volumes, 1665-1870, and MSG/800, 5 boxes, 1885-1896.
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DESCRIPTION NOTES
Note:
Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.