| Description | Authorised minutes and reports of Special Committees, comprising: Committee appointed respecting a resolution of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1840 [formation of a conchological collection], April 1843; Committee appointed to select a new porter, July 1841; House Repairs Committee, 1861; Committee on modification of admission fees, May-June 1857; special Finance Committees, 1841-1857; Committee to consider the expedience of employing a publisher to produce illustrated issues of the ‘Proceedings’, 11 December 1844; special Committees concerning the Society’s publications, 1847-1857; Committee to consider the modifications of the duties of Officers of the Society following Mr Lonsdale’s resignation, May 1842; special Museum Committees to consider alterations, disposal of specimens, arrangement of Foreign Collections, Mr [Andrew Geddes] Bain’s African fossils; 1845-1863; Committee to consider the matter of unpublished papers read before Society prior to November 1843, March-April 1845; Committee to consider the gratuitous distribution of the ‘Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society’, amongst Fellows, May-June 1857; Committee for the appointment of a new Vice-Secretary, 11 December 1844; special Library Committees, including purchase of stock and appointment of staff, 1857-1868; Committee to consider the mounting of the Society’s maps, December 1851; Committee to consider the publication of Mr Ormerod’s index to all the Society’s published papers, 4 February 1857; Committee to consider the revision and publication of a new edition of George Bellas Greenough’s ‘Geological Map of England’, July-June 1859; Committee reporting the discussions at the evening meetings, May 1868; Committee to consider the duties and salary of the Assistant Secretary, November 1868; combined Library & Museum Committee, 1868-1872; Committee on the manner of keeping accounts, March-April 1871; Committee to prepare a statement for the Royal Geographical Society with regard to a proposed Arctic exploration, 19 June 1872. |