| Description | Authorised minutes and reports of Special and Standing Committees, comprising:
Library and Museum Committee, mostly recommending the purchase of books but including report on the fittings of the Museum, 1873-1888; Quarterly Journal Publication Committee, April 1876; Committee on the management of the Soiree, 1876-1887; Committee on ventilation, 8 January 1878; Committee to consider the discontinuation of published reports of the Evening Meetings, May 1878; special Finance Committee meeting to consider the motions of Joseph Prestwich and Harry Govier Seeley to modify the membership fees of the Society, December 1879; Committee on Professor Hughes' motion with reference to the international congress on geological nomenclature, 7 January 1880; Committee to investigate domestic expenditure and methods of keeping accounts, including analysis of House expenses of 1879, 10 March 1880; Committee of recommendation for the arrangement of busts, paintings, etc, 5 January 1880; Committee on the Charitable Trusts Bill, June-July 1881; Committee to consider the Communication from the Colonial Office [recommending the appointment of Edward Townley Hardman to the Government sponsored expedition to report on geology and gold prospects of the Kimberley district of Western Australia], 1 January 1883; report of the Officers concerning increasing the insurance on the Society's property, [1885-1886]; Committee to consider the duties, relations and stipends of the Society's paid officials, March 1886; Committee for the selection of an assistant, 30 March-April 1886; Journal Management Committee, February-March 1887; Committee on Sir John William Dawson's letter [which proposed the Society taking a lead in the standardization of geological mapping and nomenclature], 27 April 1887; House Cleaning Committee, May-November 1887; various Committees connected to the preparations for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, June 1887 |