Council Minutes Printed

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0117 CMP
Held at	: Royal Society   Click here to find out how to view this collection at https://royalsociety.org/collections/ ›
Full title	: Council Minutes Printed
Date(s)	: 1832-
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 27 volumes
Name of creator(s)	: Royal Society
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

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 & 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.

Finding aids:

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Allied Materials

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

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.