| Description | Authorised minutes and reports of Special and Standing Committees, comprising:
Library and Museum Committee, 1889-1904, including a Special Museum Committee to weed and rearrange the collection, 1891-1893; Investment Committee, 1 May 1890; Committee to concerning the appointment of an Assistant Secretary, October-November 1890; Committee on the printing of discussions at Ordinary Meetings, 17 December 1890; Committee to consider the changes which must follow from the retirement of Isaac Charlton, House Porter of the Society, May-June 1891; Special Domestic Establishment Committee [following the new porter, John Clarke, being found drunk and insensible at work], including detailed lists of duties for the porter, upper housemaid (the porter's wife), under housemaid and charwoman, 6 July 1891; Committee to consider the memorial (included) led by Charles Lapworth, on behalf of the Fellows, requesting the opening of the Library and Museum during Evening Meetings, 6 January 1892 [see: COM/SP/4/5]; Committee on the proposed alterations to the gas meter, 27 April 1892; Committee to consider the best plan to preserve the Society's collection of Ordnance Survey maps, [1892]; House Committee, 22 June 1892; 'Index' Committee [concerning the compilation of an index of the first 50 volumes of the 'Quarterly Journal]', May-November 1893; Finance Committee, April-May 1894; Journal Committee, October -November 1894; Committee regarding Geologists' Association meetings, 22 May 1895; Committee to consider the Museum, electric lighting and alterations to the Society's apartments, October-November 1895; Committee relating to the appointment of an assistant clerk, 29 October 1895; proposals to hand the whole of the Society's Museum collections to the British Museum, [November 1895]; Committee on indexing and cataloguing geological literature, January 1895-March 1898, also Committee concerned with drawing up a scheme of geological and palaeontological classification for the International Catalogue Committee of the Royal Society, May 1897- November 1900; Committee to consider publishing the James Hutton manuscript in possession of the Society, 2 July 1897; Referee Committee, April 1898 & 1904; Foreign Member Selection Regulation Committee, 26 April 1899; Awards of Medals and Funds Regulations Committee, 7 June 1899; Electric lighting Committee, 28 December 1899; Annual Meeting Procedure Committee, 16 May 1900; Library Catalogue Committee, November 1900-January 1902; Daniel Pidgeon Bequest Committee, February 1901-April 1904; Domestic Establishment Committee [following the resignation of the House Porter], 26 March 1901; Redecoration Committee, 16 May 1901; Museum Catalogue Form Committee, 12 July 1901; Printing Charges Committee, January & December 1901; Committee to consider suggestions for certain improvements to the Society, made by Rev John Frederick Blake, including the production of a Museum catalogue of types and figured specimens and the introduction of women Fellows, November-December 1901; Dawson Memorial Committee, concerning proposals to commemorate the distinguished geologists Sir John William Dawson and his son George Mercer Dawson, 26 March 1902; Prestwich Trust Committee, April-June 1902; Photographs Committee, May-June 1902; Committee to consider the present state of the Library and the duties of the officers therewith, October-November 1902; Method of making awards Committee, 30 October 1903; Publications Committee, March 1902-February 1904; Visitors Regulations Committee, 24 February 1904; Standing Orders Committee, 27 April 1904; Record Committee, to organize the compilation of an historical record of the Society, 21 December 1904.
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