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Royal Society

Council Minutes Printed


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 CMP

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Council Minutes Printed

Date(s): 1832-

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 27 volumes

Name of creator(s): Royal Society

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the meetings of the Royal Society Council, concerned with the business and administrtion of the Society. Entries record discussions of all matters relating to the Society's constitution, activities, awards, funds and bequests, buildings, staff, etc. From 1832 the Minutes were printed for distribution to Council Members, and bound sets retained by the Society.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Chronologically by date.

Conditions governing access:

30 year rule applies.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

Physical characteristics:

Leather bound volumes.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:

Accruals:

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

Existence and location of originals:

Existence and location of copies:

Related material:

Council Minutes Original, reference CMO; various series of rough minutes with some fair copies in the Manuscripts General - reference MS/629-647, 19 volumes 1665-1870 and MS/800, 5 boxes, 1885-1896.

Publication note:

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Note:

Archivist's note: Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions: General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Feb 2009.


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Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

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Royal Society

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