| Description | Files relating to the proposed changes to the Society's Bye-laws of 1888-1889. Includes: correspondence and motions from Fellows; legal opinion; manuscript & printed drafts of the revised Bye-Laws; notices of the Special General Meetings of March and May 1889, plus rough minutes of the SGM of 15 March 1889. Also in the file is the original manuscript motion by Thomas Vincent Holmes’ which called for the inclusion of 'her' in the new Bye-Laws, the first attempt to allow women to jointhe Society, 30 January 1889. |