| Description | Rough minutes and reports of various special committees, comprising: Committee to consider the measures to be adopted to fill the vacancy following Mr Lonsdale’s resignation, May 1842 [Lonsdale resigned his duties as his health broke down from overwork]; Committee to consider the resolution of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1840 [formation of a conchological collection], April 1843; Committee appointed to consider the candidates for the office of Vice Secretary following Professor Forbes' resignation, 11 December 1844; Committee to consider the expedience of employing a publisher to produce illustrated issues of the ‘Proceedings’, 11 December 1844; Committee to consider the matter of unpublished papers read before Society prior to November 1843, 12 March 1845; special Museum Committees to consider alterations to the Museum, arrangement of specimens, duplicates, conservation of African fossils, 1849-1849; Committee to consider the mounting of the Society’s maps, December 1851; Committee to enquire into the expense of corrections in published papers [for his Memoir on Belgian Tertiaries] charged to Charles Lyell, 2 February 1853; Committee to report upon the fossil shell collection sent from the Cape of Good Hope, 28 February 1853; Committee to enquire into the expense of corrections in published papers charged to Joseph Prestwich; Committee to consider the number of public bodies which will be sent copies of the ‘Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society’, 10 March 1849; Committee to consider the proposal of the Geological Society of Dublin to publish their journal in conjunction with the ‘Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, nd; Committee to consider the arrangement of the books and maps bequeathed by George Bellas Greenough, 6 February 1856; Committee to consider problems with the Society’s ‘Quarterly Journal’, 28 April 1858. |