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Royal Society

Royal Society: Officers Minutes and Agenda


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 OMA

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Royal Society: Officers Minutes and Agenda

Date(s): 1926-1987

Level of description: sub-fonds

Extent: 27 volumes

Name of creator(s): Royal Society

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CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Minutes of the meetings of the Officers of the Society to discuss matters of policy, the administration and staffing of the Society, and to consider reports from staff.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

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Conditions governing access:

30 year rule applies.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

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Officers Mintes (OM): the subjects under discussion are indexed in all volumes except volume 6, covering the period 1943-1948. There are two additional volumes which give chronological lists of papers submitted to the Officers 1947-1973 and 1973-1981. The minute books are listed in the Archive Card Catalogue, giving a brief indication of the chronological extent of each volume. Officers Agenda (OA): each volume listed in the Archive Card Catalogue, chronological extent noted.

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DESCRIPTION NOTES

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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.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Learned societies | Associations | Organizations

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal Society

Places