| Description | Authorised minutes and reports of Special and Standing Committees, comprising:
Committee of Officers, 24 April 1912, November 1919- Dec 1920; Conversazione Committee, 5 June 1912; Admission of Women Committee, 18 December 1918; Finance Committee, March 1919; President's Committee, considering the advisability of initiating an International Union of Geological Societies, 20 June 1919; Abstracts of Proceedings Committee, March-April 1920, 16 December 1925; Reserve Fund Committee, 17 May 1920; Committee to consider the future of the Geological Literature and Society's Card Catalogue, March-April 1921; Committee to consider the financial obligations to the Society and its Fellows, May 1931-June 1932; Committee for the revision of the Charter and Bye-Laws, May 1934-May 1936; Chemical Analysis Committee, to consider the suggestion made by L E Kent to compile a new chemical analysis of igneous rocks, May-October 1947; Committee to consider the conditions of admission and membership of the Society, 21 April 1937; Special Committees relating to the organization of the 1940 International Geological Congress, April - December 1937; Joint Committee of the Geological Society and the Geologists' Association to consider the utilisation of the cinematograph film as an aid to the dissemination of geological knowledge [abbreviated to Film Committee], May-November 1935; Committee to consider the matters raised by Dr G M Lee's communication to the Council [concerning papers published in the 'Quarterly Journal'], 3 May 1939; Finance Committee to consider proposals for the reform of the Society's function and practice, later Standing Finance Committee, June 1943-June 1947; Committee to consider the proposal to form an International Union of Geology federated with the International Council of Scientific Unions, October -November 1947; Meetings of the Geological Society and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy on colonial geological surveys, August-September 1943; Public Relations Committee, August 1943-April 1946, March-December 1964; Air Photographs Committee, May-September 1945; Students' Geological Tours Committee, later Students' Instructional Tours Committee, November 1945-October 1963; Education Committee, February-November 1945. |
| Administrative History | The Committee for the revision of the Charter and Bye-laws (1934-1936) introduced the Senior Fellowship category - that is Fellows with an unbroken period of 50 years' membership no longer need to pay annual fees. |