Correspondence between the RCOG President, Sir John Peel, and the Simon Population Trust concerning the enquiry into the sterilisation of women; statistical results of the survey; draft and final copies of the subsequent report, 1967-1969.

Survey questionnaires of obstetric flying squads, a summary of the survey and correspondence regarding hospital call-out team insurance, 1980-1987.

Agenda, minutes, papers and final report of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists working party to audit structured training, 1998-2000.

Records of the College Archives primarily covering the period of office of the first Archivist, Claire Daunton, who established the Archives and created the cataloguing system. Records include material relating to accessions and deposits (1987-1988), cataloguing, records management and departmental policy (1989-1997). They include correspondence with the Vice-President's office (1993-1996) and regarding the indexing of Committee minutes (1990). Also includes papers of Dr Ornella Moscucci's unpublished history of the College (1989) and the College Archives Subject Guides (1999).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Examination Committee, 1929-2006, comprising committee minute books (1929-1988); correspondence, agenda, minutes and papers (1929-1996); examination regulations for Members and Diplomates, regulations for the admission of Fellows (1942-2001); blank and completed samples of log books for the MRCOG examination (1982-2002); samples of case notes and commentaries submitted for the MRCOG examination dating between 1940-1954; sample examination papers for the DRCOG dating between 1937-2001; sample examination papers for the MRCOG (2006); examination results for the MRCOG and DRCOG (1934-1949); assessors' reports on examinations (1943-1950); attendance book for the examiners of the diploma in obstetrics dining club (1960-1961).

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Education Board, 1992-2007, comprising agenda, minutes and papers, 1992-2007; correspondence of the Secretary to the Board, 2001-2007; records of the Implementation Group to Audit Structured Training, 1993-1998.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Standards Board, 1999-2005, comprising agenda, minutes and circulated papers.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Overseas Committees and Councils, 1946-1984. The series contains: correspondence, minutes and papers of regional councils in Australia (1946-1980), New Zealand (1947-1976) and Canada (1948-1964); minutes and papers of the Dominion Committee (1952-1958); minutes, papers and reports from the Overseas Policy Committee (1946-1971); correspondence, minutes and papers of the South African Reference Committee and Regional Council (1953-1976); correspondence and papers of the Overseas Representative Committees in Ceylon, India and Pakistan (1962-1977); minute books of the international Regional Councils and Overseas Committees (1946-1984).

Records of the Joint Steering Group of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care [FFPRHC] on teenage pregnancy, 1972-1995, comprising correspondence and reports on the remit of the Joint Steering Group (1992-1995), related press clippings and reports (1972-1995), papers on a conference on emergency hormonal contraception (1994-1995) and papers of the research and audit sub-group (1994). Also includes for 1993 to 1995: agenda and minutes; correspondence; minute book; records of expenses.

Published reports of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' Maternity Care Working Party.

Records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists relating to communications, public relations and external affairs, detailing the following activities:

• Public relations: promoting the RCOG to the media and public.
  • Press and media relations: liasing with the media, issuing press releases, position statements, organising press conferences, maintaining a register of RCOG spokespersons.
  • Parliamentary and government affairs: lobbying MPs and civil servants, organising ministerial briefings and events.
• Issues management: researching the news agenda, forecasting issues that will affect RCOG, managing the socio-political consequences.
• Promoting recruitment into Obstetrics and Gynaecology to medical students and young doctors. The records include: promotional material produced by the College (1980-2008); press cuttings; annual reports from 1932 to the present day (excluding 1934-1938, 1945-1947 and 1949); College position statements and press notices (1987-1993).

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists reports running annually from 1930 to the present; numbers 1-3, 6-10, 17-19, 21 are missing, but one memorandum has survived from No.3. For each year, the Report lists the Honorary Fellows and Officers and reports on the following: honorary appointments and adminstration; the structure of the College; Council Membership; New Fellows and Members; the annual general meeting; awards; overseas activities; obituaries; gifts; RCOG publications; financial activites. It also includes reports of Council and from the standing committees, representative committees, reference committees and other committees of note, and a full financial report from the College Treasurer.

Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists' minute books, 1929-1987, containing the minutes of various committees and working parties of the College, as well as joint committees and working parties of the College with outside bodies. Each volume contains the minutes, frequently signed by the chairman, of two or more committees of roughly the same period.

Registers of Fellows and Members and related records of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-2001, comprising register of Fellows, 1931-1939; register of Members, 1929-1939; printed registers of Fellows and Members, 1946-1947, 1966-2002; Oath Book signed by Foundation Fellows and by Members on admission to the College, c1932-1967; forms giving particulars of directors and managers of the British College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1932-1946; printed Annual Report, 1932-2001 (some gaps); printed notes describing the functions and organisation of the College, 1967-1998; Honorary Fellows' Admission Book (gift of William Blair-Bell), 1931-1979; Members' admission ceremonies programmes, 1995-2000; Fellows' admission ceremonies programmes and papers, 1987-1998; combined Fellows' and Members' admission ceremony programmes, 1996.

Records of the Annual General Meetings of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, 1929-1976, comprising attendance book, 1930-1968; minute book of the first to the tenth annual meetings, 1930-1976.

the records are arranged in the following series:-
C1: Standing Joint-Committee of the RCOG, RCP and RCSENG, 1939-1974.
C2: Conference of the Royal Medical Colleges, 1975-1990.
C3: Joint Consultants' Committee, 1948-1985.
C4: RCOG and British Paediatric Association Standing Committee/RCPCH, 1949-1997.
C6: Ad hoc committee on analgesia and anaesthesia. 1970-1975.
C7: Joint RCOG and RCGP committees and working parties, 1968-1993.
C8: RCOG and National Birthday Trust Fund, 1967-1984.
C9: RCOG and RCR working party on ultrasound, 1985-1997C10: RCOG and Population Investigation Committee of the Eugenics Society, 1949-1952.
C11: Representative Committee (later the Negotiating Committee), 1945-1948.
C12: Joint MRC and RCOG Voluntary Licensing Authority for Human In Vitro Fertilisation and Embryology, 1985-1986.
C13: Joint working party to consider a proposed Faculty of Family Planning, 1984-1990.
C14: Joint Medico-Legal Committee of the RCOG and Defence Societies, 1985-1998.
C15: Joint Colleges forum of the RCOG, RCGP and RCM on maternity services for the 1990s, 1992.
C16: Ad hoc committee/interdisciplinary working party on the confidential enquiry into perinatal mortality, 1981-1985.
C17: Committee of Enquiry into Competence to Practise, 1976.
C18: RCOG response to the Interim Report of the Joint Council of Midwifery on non-therapeutic abortion and Inter-departmental Committee of the Ministry of Health on the problem of abortion, 1936-1938.
C19: Multidisciplinary Working Group: Prenatal Screening for Toxoplasmosis in the UK 1991-1996.
C20: RCOG Standing Advisory Committee of the RCOG and College of Anaesthetists working party on resuscitation of the newborn (1987): instruction manuals, c1987.
C21: Advisory Appointments Committees (1955): College records, 1955-1992.
C22: Joint working parties of the RCOG and Royal College of Pathologists (1986-1988): final reports, 1988..
C23: Joint steering group on teenage pregnancy: records, 1993-1995.
C24: Joint working group of the RCOG and British Gynaecological Cancer Society: records, 1997.

Papers of the RCOG Sub-specialisation advisory group, including agenda, minutes, correspondence and other records of the advisory groups into fetal medicine, gynaecological oncology, and reproductive medicine, 1984; correspondence with senior British obstetricians and gynaecologists concerning further sub-specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology, 1983; proposed curriculum and special requirements for sub-specialisation in gynaecological oncology, undated; curriculum for specialisation in fetal medicine and proposals for learning and training in maternal-fetal medicine, undated; training programme for gynaecological urology, undated; guide to learning in reproductive medicine, undated; papers of T L T Lewis, chairman, 1983-1984; correspondence of Professor Richard Beard, chairman, Scientific Advisory and Pathology Committee (SAPC), concerning the sub-specialisation advisory group, 1983-1984; draft copy of final report, with amendments, 1984; copies of the report of the working party on further specialisation within obstetrics and gynaecology; report of the manpower advisory sub-committee of the RCOG and RCOG Regulations for Accreditation of Completion of Higher Training of Members of the College, 1980-1983.

Report of the Working Party on Minimum Standards of Care in Labour, June 1994.

Minute book of the Syrian Society, 1805-1808; letters to and from W R Hamilton concerning Joseph Marpurg, Joseph Hammer and others; draft of resolution of disbandment of the Association and the transfer of its assets to the Royal Georaphical Society, 1834.

Papers, 1970-1976, consisting of biographies of lives of the Fellows collected by Sir John Peel for his book The Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists 1929-1969 (Whitefriars Press Ltd, 1976), including notes and correspondence.

Papers of the Fothergill Club, 1957-2000, including minutes of meetings and other administrative correspondence relating to attendance of and arrangements for meetings, administrative papers relating to the organisation of overseas visits, and papers relating to recruitment and membership matters.

The Archive of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association consists of Secretary's correspondence and papers, 1971-1991; papers of Professor William L Twining as a CLEA officer, 1973-1994; papers of Professor James Read as CLEA Chairman, and other papers, 1974-1995; CLEA Newsletter, 1974-1995; CLEA Directory of Schools of Law in the Commonwealth, 1979-1988; miscellaneous CLEA publications and offprints, 1978-1992.

The papers of the Legal Skills Research Group are the LSRG files of Professor Terence Daintith, Convenor of the LSRG from 1989 to 1994, and Director of IALS. The records consist of agenda, minutes and papers of the Group, 1989-1994; papers relating to funding, 1988-1994; administrative records, 1989-1993; Convenor's correspondence, 1988-1994; documents and papers relating to legal skills, 1987-1994.

Minute books, cash books, ledgers, registers of members and the Seal, 1890-1980; papers relating to the Economic Journal including: management files; correspondence with contributors; and, published and rejected articles; set of the Economic Journal, 1891-2004; Austin Robinson files regarding RES, including a list of fellows (1906), files from the 1940s-1950s, and, files relating to the revision of the bye-laws in 1967; Donald Winch files regarding RES, 1959-2005; 'The works and correspondence of David Ricardo', volumes 1-11, Piero Sraffa with the collaboration of M H Dobb (eds.), 1966.

Archives, [1957]-1996, of Africa95, including material from the festival administrators, producers and participants.

Various deposits, c1980-1996, on individual artists or on planning Africa95 include correspondence, printed material, photographs, and slides of the work of artists from Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, Tunisia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and the USA.

Records of the central administration, 1991-1996, comprise planning papers and correspondence, 1991-1993; minutes of the Executive Committee, 1993-1995, Board of Trustees, 1995-1996, Funding Committee, 1993-1994, and Annual General Meeting, 1995; Chairman's correspondence, 1993-1996; research materials on non-western arts in Europe; Executive Council records, comprising correspondence, 1992-1995, reports received, 1993, 1995, and Trustees' report and financial statements, 1995; contracts, information and correspondence of the Co-ordinator, 1993-1994; International Council of Artists proposals, contact lists and correspondence, 1993-1994; brochures, 1993-1995; legal papers concerning incorporation, lease of premises, and charitable status, 1993-1995.

Records relating to arts management, 1980-1996, cover funding and sponsorship, 1993-1995; publicity, 1994-1995; press activity, 1994-1996, including cuttings; posters, 1993-1995; general administration, including personnel and finance, 1994-1995; arts organisations and other festivals, 1991-1995; subject files, 1985-1996, including exhibition catalogues on people and places including Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tunisia, the USA, and Zimbabwe; videos, 1980-1995, including artists and their work; publications and exhibition catalogues, 1980-1995, for Algeria, Angola, France, Korea, Morocco, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and the UK.

Records relating to finance and development, 1991-1996, cover budgets and funding, companies and sponsorship, and Trusts.

Records on receptions and launches, 1993-1995, relate to events in various locations.

Records relating to Africa95 Nigeria, 1994-1995, include correspondence and photographs.

Records relating to arts events across the UK cover visual arts (photography, fine art, sculpture, calligraphy, metalwork, textiles, and architecture), 1991-1996; cinema, 1993-1995; music, including classical, traditional, gospel, world, jazz, reggae, and popular music [1957]-1996 (including videos, sound recordings and scores); performing arts, including dance, theatre, and puppetry, 1989-1996 (including videos); literature, including poetry, 1993-1995.

Records relating to other activities cover conferences on African arts, including events at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Royal African Society, and Courtauld Institute of Art, 1993-1996; education and young peoples' events, 1993-1996; international workshops and residencies, including events in Senegal, Zimbabwe, London, and Yorkshire, 1990-1996; television and radio, 1992-1995 (including sound recordings of programmes on Radios 1, 3 and 4).

Records relating to post-festival administration, 1994-1996, cover evaluation, celebratory concert, finance, and archive arrangements.

Records, 1967-1969, of the Committee for Peace in Nigeria, including records of membership; minutes; correspondence, including that between Lord Brockway and the Prime Minister, and that conducted with Colonel Ojukwu and General Gowon; reports and statements on official visits; press releases; publications, pamphlets and publicity material.

Papers, 1835-c1975, of and relating to the Rev Thomas Pyne, comprising correspondence and accounts, 1839-1845 and undated, documenting Pyne's guardianship of (John) Ossoo Ansah and (William) Quanti Massah in England (1840), associated expenses, and aspects of their trip including invitations to dinner, entrance permits to London Zoo and to George Heriot's Hospital [School], Edinburgh, undated plan of a breakwater, Falmouth(?), undated print of Brighton Pavilion and other ephemera relating to places visited, photographs of paintings of the princes, and various visiting cards; other correspondence and papers of Pyne, 1835-1873 and undated, including printed Thanksgiving sermon preached at St Peter's Church, New York, including anti-slavery sentiments, 1835, pamphlets by Pyne on peace, 1844 and undated, and astronomy, 1852, a letter from L'Institut d'Afrique to Pyne concerning honorary membership, 1843, miscellaneous pamphlets relating to African affairs, and a photograph of Pyne, 1870; correspondence, notes, transcripts from original documents, and other papers, 1950-1953, c1975 and undated, concerning Pyne and his papers, and the two princes, including their portraits.

Papers, c1900-1992, collected by Jean Boyd, relating to northern Nigeria from the late 18th century to the 1990s.

Papers on Nana Asma'u include copies of her manuscript poems (1820-1865) and later papers relating to her work, including translations, 1976-1984. Papers on works by Shehu dan Fodio include copies of his poems on male-female relationships (1789 and undated) and later papers relating to his work, 1975-1981. Papers on works by Asma'u's female relatives and descendants include copies of poems and writings by various authors (c1860-1934 and undated) and later papers relating to the subject, c1950-1990. Other material comprises field notes on the remnants of Asma'u's disciples, the Yan Taru, 1973-1990; papers on the milieu in which Asma'u lived in Gobir, c1900-1984, including Gobir chiefs; papers, including press cuttings, on the situation of women in northern Nigeria in the 1980s, the subjects including Muslims, prostitution, women's organizations, medical matters, and women's education.

Papers, 1903-1992, including articles, reports and press cuttings, on Sokoto relate to geological history, prehistory, palaeontology, archaeology, pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial history, the subjects including the social and economic history of the city of Sokoto, colonial administration, British fears over Mahdism, and local government and economic issues in Sokoto state in modern Nigeria.

Three volumes contain over 500 postcards, many in colour, relating to Nigeria, including images of people, cultural events, various places, and other aspects of Nigerian life [late 20th century].

Papers, 1878-1988, of Eugenie Henderson, comprising collected language, phonetics and linguistics material; conference papers and lecture notes from major linguistic conferences that she attended; socio-linguistic material; and papers from the societies and organisations to which she belonged.

Papers of the Kibbo Kift Kindred, the Green Shirt Movement for Social Credit, and the Social Credit Party, 1919-[1989], notably administrative material, 1928-1932, including the Kinlaw with suggested improvements, reports and minutes of the Kin Council, constitutional papers, and mandates and charters of individual members and clans; material concerning rituals, vestments and totems, 1923-1930, including correspondence and designs; material concerning teaching undertaken by the Kindred, 1924-[1932]; administrative material of the Green Shirt Movement and the Social Credit Party, 1932-1951, comprising annual reports, minutes and papers of the National Assembly, the Consultative Council and the Executive Council, and membership records; correspondence of the General Secretary and other officials, 1929-1952; correspondence and files on particular subjects, 1932-1951, including Social Credit, the Public Order Act, and SCP candidates in the general elections of 1935 and 1950; publications and propaganda for all three organisations, 1921-1950, also including drafts of articles, song sheets and poems, play scripts, and newspaper cuttings; correspondence with, and material on, other social credit organisations, 1933-1949; papers of individual members, 1921-1951; photographs of Kibbo Kift activities, [1921-1931], including photographs taken by Angus Rowland McBean; photographs relating to the Green Shirt Movement and the Social Credit Party, [1933-1950]; sound recordings, [1979], including interviews with John and Diana Hargrave relating to the Kibbo Kift; printed materials and periodicals, 1919-1965; photocopies of books by John Hargrave, 1924-1964; material deposited by the Kibbo Kift Foundation concerning its inception, history and continuing activities, 1976-[1989], such as photographs of Kibbo Kift activities taken by Angus Rowland McBean.
Also two additional accessions deposited in 2002:
M3153: Additional correspondence and papers relating to the Kibbo Kift, the Social Credit movement and John Hargrave. Also papers relating to the foundation of the Kibbo Kift Foundation, 1921-1993.
M3135: The Log of the Vagari Lodge of the Kibbo Kift and related papers, 1930-1982.

The papers of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies consists of the monthly journal of SALS Amicus Curiae ("Friend of the Court"), Oct 1997-April 1999. At present no information is available on the extent, content and accessibility of the administrative records of SALS or its predecessor.

Papers in the Socio-Legal Studies Association archive comprise the correspondence and papers, 1989-1996, of founder member and Chairman, Professor Martin Partington; the papers consist of his copies of agenda, minutes and papers of Executive Committee meetings, plus his own files of correspondence as founder member, fund raiser, organiser of the 1990 conference and Chairman; minutes, agenda and papers of Annual General Meetings, 1990-1994; papers and proceedings of annual conferences, 1993-1997; papers relating to the response of SLSA to the Economic and Social Research Council review of socio-legal studies, 1993; complete set of the Newsletter, 1989-1997, and Directory of Members, 1995-1997.

Papers of Frederick George Donnan, comprising a long series of general correspondence; eight subject files of correspondence relating to committees and learned societies in which Donnan had a special interest; reports, speeches and obituaries by Donnan; diplomas and degree certificates; photograph album; miscellaneous material.

Papers, c1914-1989, of Dame Kathleen Lonsdale.

Biographical material includes correspondence and papers relating to imprisonment in Holloway Prison, with Lonsdale's own accounts of her time there; diaries and personal notebooks, 1946-1969; letters of congratulation on election as Fellow of the Royal Society (1945); various photographs dating from school to her later years.

Papers relating to Lonsdale's teaching and administrative work at University College London include papers on teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses; significant documentation relating to laboratory personnel, research funding and general university administration; papers relating to the 'Round Table on Peace Studies', which proposed the establishment of a centre for research into international conflict at the University.

Research material, 1924-1970, consists of Royal Institution papers comprising notebooks, one dating from Lonsdale's first period there (1923-1927), correspondence with colleagues such as W H Bragg and J M Robertson, and Lonsdale's notes and drafts for various research topics; correspondence and papers from her University College years covering many different areas of research, including diffuse scattering of X-rays, thermal vibrations in crystals, methonium compounds and urinary calculi (the latter topic particularly well documented and including several case studies), and including a large group of photographs, mostly of X-ray diffraction patterns.

Papers on the preparation of volumes of the International Tables for crystal structure determination from Lonsdale's chairmanship of the Commission on Tables (1948) comprise drafts, notes and correspondence with colleagues and publishers.

Extensive papers relating to publications, lectures and broadcasts include drafts of articles, on subjects including peace and religious issues, also including obituaries and biographical articles on various individuals, books, book reviews, obituaries, and letters to newspapers and magazines, the latter principally on the issue of atomic weapons; general correspondence concerning publications; drafts of lectures, 1945-1970, including ethics and the role of science in society; a large series of lecture notes, 1933-1970; scripts for broadcasts, on topics ranging from crystallography to religion, 1945-1967.

Papers on foreign and domestic travel, 1943-1971, relating to conferences and lectures, on crystallography, science ethics, and work for the Society of Friends, including her visit to China (1955) and her world tour (1965).

Papers relating to organisations, notably the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) and the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr), including material relating to a number of International Congresses of Crystallography, also papers relating to participation in Pugwash Conferences on World Affairs, 1958-1970, and papers concerning prison reform and the running of Bullwood Hall Borstal, Essex.

Correspondence, 1927-1974, comprises two main sequences, one arranged alphabetically, the other chronologically; 'day files', principally carbons of outgoing correspondence, 1966-1969; a sequence of references and recommendations; also including correspondence relating to Lonsdale's period of imprisonment (1943). Correspondents include scientists such as Max Born, W H Bragg, W L Bragg, E G Cox, Dorothy Hodgkin, Judith Milledge, L C Pauling and A J C Wilson.

Records of the Shakespeare Association, 1914-1955, consisting of minute books, annual reports, membership lists, cash book, correspondence regarding publications and subscriptions, other correspondence and press cuttings.

Papers of Reginald Hale-White chiefly relating to the Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, including correspondence; address at the Tunbridge Wells meeting of the Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, Apr 1953; typescript drafts of reports; press-releases and printed Bulletins of the Fellowship for Freedom in Medicine, 1948-1972 (some were added to the collection by Hale-White's widow after his death). Also comprises material about his other medical interests including correspondence and other papers about the Government proposal to ban the manufacture and import of heroin in the United Kingdom, and about Hale-White's participation in opposing the ban, 1955-1956; copies of letters from Hale-White to the Daily Telegraph and the British Medical Journal, 1958-1967 and typescripts of speeches and lectures given by Hale-White, some annotated by him in manuscript.

Papers of the British Society of Dental Surgeons, 1922-1928, comprising a volume of minutes of the Council, and Ordinary Meetings of the British Society of Dental Surgeons, 1922-1925; and a volume of minutes of the Council, and Ordinary Meetings of the British Society of Dental Surgeons, 1925-1928.

Papers of E Duval, 1924, comprising 2 volumes titled MS Extracts on Teeth. E. Duval. Vol. I. 1924, and MS Extracts on Teeth. E. Duval. Vol II. 1924. Containing notes on various aspects of teeth and dentistry such as dental diseases and treatments; instrument and tooth makers; dental and odontological societies; and the obituaries of dentists and dental surgeons. The extracts are mostly taken from journals and books of the mid to late 19th century.

Notes of interviews by Julie Wells with Josie Palmer, active in the Communist Party of South Africa, and the African National Congress, and founder member of Transvaal All-Women's Union and the Federation of South African Women), 1928-1955, on 19 and 26 October 1977.

Papers of the West London Medico-Chirurgical Society, 1886-1908, comprising a volume titled Minute Book Volume 1 containing minutes, 1886-1908; and a volume titled Minute Book Volume 3 containing minutes, 1889.

Papers of the Western Friendly Medical Club, 1862-1952, comprising 5 volumes of minutes, including signatures of members, notes, sketches, drawings and paintings, 1862-1946; a volume of reproductions of drawings and paintings found in the first 3 volumes of minutes, 1862-1909; a volume containing income and expenditure information for the Club, 1880-1933; 2 volumes containing notes on the business activities carried out at the meetings of the Club, 1903-1914; a red leather holder with a notebook titled Dr A Hope Gosse Esq, Western Medical Friendly Society, containing accounts information for the Club, 1928-1933; a volume titled The International Laws of Contract Bridge (Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd, London, 1935), containing the inscription 'Xmas Eve 1935. A Xmas card to the Bridge Club from its Papa, Arnold Lawson. Wishing the club continued prosperity, happy evenings and good fellowship.'; 3 letters from members, 1928-1933; and a Sun Insurance Policy for the possessions of the Club, 1926.

Papers relating to the foundation, early history, Charter and seal and meetings of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), 1830-1973, including Prospectus for the establishment of the London Geographical Institution, 4 May 1830; booklet containing printed prospectus, list of members, regulations and note on the Royal Premium of the RGS, 1831; minutes of RGS meetings 24 and 26 May 1830; histories of the RGS; list of RGS members, 1830; report entitled 'The RGS: a report on the state of the Society', 10 Jun 1833; paper by J R Jackson entitled 'Regarding the labours of the RGS, by a member', 1837; Charter of the RGS; drawings and correspondence relating to the RGS's seal, 1859; minutes of the Special General Meeting, 20 Jun 1863; papers relating to anniversary events and conversaziones, 1855-1930; tabular statement on the number of Fellows, 1908-1916; visitor's books, 1831-1973 and press cuttings.

Papers relating to Royal Geographical Society formal addresses and diplomas including photograph of formal address presented by the RGS to Queen Elizabeth II on 25th anniversary of her accession; formal addresses to the RGS from Geographical Societies from around the world on the occasion of the RGS centenary, 1930 and the 150th anniversary, 1980; diplomas awarded to the RGS at the British Empire Expedition, 1924 and document received from the Legislature of California for the Drake celebrations.

Papers relating to Royal Geographical Society buildings, 1837-1991, including House Committee papers, 1839, financial papers; inventory of RGS property, 1840; papers relating to repairs; papers and correspondence of the Building Fund, 1911-1930s; papers relating to Trust Funds, 1913-1976 and papers relating to the following properties: Lowther Lodge, 1912-1991, Horticultural Society's rooms, 1839, 213 Piccadilly, 1839, 3 Waterloo Place, 1839, Whitehall Place house, 1854-1857, Burlington Gardens, 1898-1901 and Saville Row/Virgo Street, 1909-1912.

Royal Geographical Society evening meeting minute books, 1830-1972.

Royal Geographical Society Correspondence Block 1830-1833 consists of correspondence with the Society in the first four years after its foundation. The letters cover administrative matters as well as all aspects of Geography and exploration throughout the world. These files contain incoming letters only, replies are held separately in the out-letter books. Authors include John Arrowsmith, Sir George Back, Friedrich Bialloblotsky, Robert Fitzroy, William Richard Hamilton, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Alexander Maconochie, William Marsden, Paris Geographical Society, Dr John Richardson and Robert Hermann Schomburgk.

Royal Society account books, 1660-2004, falling into two chronological groups; the first series contains the early accounts for the Royal Society, 1660-1768. Much of this material deals with the financial state of the Society during the term of office of James West, and represents the administrative work of the two Library Keepers/Clerks, Francis Hauksbee and Emanuel Mendes da Costa. The second group consists of cash-books and ledgers of the 19th and 20th centuries, 1867-1976. These deal with the Society's general finances, as well as its administration of the Government Grant and various Trust Funds. A third section contains copies of the Royal Society's Annual Accounts - both signed and unsigned.

The correspondence, papers and diaries of Sir Charles Blagden. Blagden's papers are interesting on several levels, generally for his close contact with European men of learning, and his relationship with Sir Joseph Banks. Blagden's professional researches are represented by medical notes in the boxed sequence. These are grouped with papers on other subject interests, including linguistics, e.g. a draft Tahitian-English dictionary, compiled from conversations with Omai, whom Blagden inoculated after Omai's voyage to England with James Cook. Blagden's interest in antiquities and travel is documented by diary entries, as is his intercourse with fellow scientists, particularly those associated with the founding of the Royal Institution.

Transcribed from the original Letter Books. Contain fair copies of letters received by the Royal Society, the originals of which are in the Early Letters. Volumes 1-18 are letters of 1661-1727; within this group, Volume 11 has been extended into two volumes. Volume 17 was created in order to leave a gap in the series for retrospective copying of original papers. The succeeding volumes overlap in time, giving correspondence for the years 1720-1740. There are four supplementary copies, labelled A-B, B-C, D-G, G-H.

Files of papers and correspondence relating to the Royal Society's administration of its internal affairs. Currently, the bulk of this material falls within the period 1925-50, although the period covered varies considerably according to subject. At present, the collection forms an important source on the Society's activities during the Second World War, and includes files of the Central Register (Section for Scientific Reseearch) for 1939-1940. Section A of the series contains correspondence of a number of important Fellows; WH Bragg 1935-41; HH Dale 1926-45; ACG Egerton 1939-49; AV Hill 1949-45; FW Lanchester 1942-44; HG Lyons 1939-42; TR Merton 1941-56; R Robinson 1946-50; AC Seward 1932-41; FE Smith 1928-33; HT Tizard 1940