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Royal Society

Council Documents


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0117 CD

Held at: Royal Society

Title: Council Documents

Date(s): 1900-1930

Level of description: Collection (fonds)

Extent: 1,288 documents

Name of creator(s): Royal Society | Council

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Files of letters and papers submitted to Royal Society Council in consideration of particular topics. Surviving files set out the following information: subject of title of the file, contents, date laid before Council, dates of decisions communicated and notes of action taken

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Open.

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Physical characteristics:

Finding aids:

Documents catalogued letter by letter in Archive Card Catalogue.

Detailed catalogue

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

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ALLIED MATERIALS

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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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Subjects

Personal names

Corporate names
Royal Society

Places