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- 1663-1822 (Creation)
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8 volumes
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These Council Minutes were created at the end of the eighteenth century at the same time as the Journal Books Copy and continued to the early nineteenth century for security reasons.
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GB 0117 CMC 1663-1822 Collection (fonds) 8 volumes Royal Society
These Council Minutes were created at the end of the eighteenth century at the same time as the Journal Books Copy and continued to the early nineteenth century for security reasons.
Minutes of the meetings of the Royal Society Council from 1663, concerned with the business and administration of the Society. Entries record discussions of all matters relating to the Society's constitution, activities, awards, funds, bequests, buildings, staff and other administrative matters.
By date.
Open
No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
English
Leather bound volumes.
Card index to Volume 2 by Jennifer Relvyn Bray, a supplement to the name index to Thomas Birch's 'History of the Royal Society' (London, 1756).
Council Minutes Original from 1663- ; rough minutes with some fair copies in MSG/629-647, 19 volumes, 1665-1870, and MSG/800, 5 boxes, 1885-1896.
Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.
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.
Feb 2009. Learned societies Royal Society Associations Organizations
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Minutes of the meetings of the Royal Society Council from 1663, concerned with the business and administration of the Society. Entries record discussions of all matters relating to the Society's constitution, activities, awards, funds, bequests, buildings, staff and other administrative matters.
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Accruals
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By date.
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Open
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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.
Language of material
- English
Script of material
- Latin
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English
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Council Minutes Original from 1663- ; rough minutes with some fair copies in MSG/629-647, 19 volumes, 1665-1870, and MSG/800, 5 boxes, 1885-1896.
Finding aids
Card index to Volume 2 by Jennifer Relvyn Bray, a supplement to the name index to Thomas Birch's 'History of the Royal Society' (London, 1756).
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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.
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- English