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The minutes for 19 May 1828 are inverted at the end of the volume.

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From 1850 additional items tipped / pasted in include:
Letter to [Charles C] Babington at St John’s College from L[eonard] Jenyns concerning Jenyns’ cabinet of insects destined for the Society’s museum, 23 November 1850;
Report of a committee appointed on 24 February 1851 to report on the Curator’s insolvency, 3 March 1851.

Scope and Contents Items tipped / pasted in include:Printed notice announcing the publication of Part II of Volume VIII of the Society’s Transactions, 28 October 1844 (pasted in at front of volume);Letter to the Secretary from L[eonard] Jenyns concerning his collection of Cambridgeshire insects, 14 May 1855;Letter from J A Preston at 27 St Andrews Street to C C Babington, Secretary, at St John’s College, concerning the possibility of rearranging and augmenting the Society’s collection of...

Scope and Contents Items tipped / pasted in include:Note concerning the possibility of associate membership for undergraduates, based on a reading of the charter;Report by J W Clark on work done in the Library during the Long Vacation, together with suggestions for its future management, 19 October 1874;Printed notices concerning the proposed move of the Library to a larger room at the New Museums site and ongoing management of the Library, 1880-81, and letters concerning the offer to the...

Scope and Contents Items tipped / pasted in include:p.11 Letter from Oscar Browning, King’s College, to R T Glazebrook, concerning the proposed transfer to the Society of the functions and instruments of the Cambridge Anthropometric Committee, 26 January 1886 (agreed at the meeting of 1 February 1886);p.24 Letter from Horace Darwin, The Orchard, Huntingdon Road, concerning the numbers of people measured by the Anthropometric Committee, payments made, maintenance of instruments etc, 31 March...

Scope and Contents The following items are regularly included: printed balloting lists for election of officers at the annual general meeting; printed statements of accounts; notes recommending Hopkins Prize winners; letters and notices concerning costs of publications, accessions to the Library etc. Other items tipped / pasted in include:p.14 Letter from A R Forsyth, Trinity College, concerning the possibility of a Cambridge meeting of an international congress of mathematicians in connection with the...

Scope and Contents The following items are regularly included: printed balloting lists for election of officers at the annual general meeting; congratulatory addresses to other learned societies, universities etc, on their anniversaries (chiefly overseas); lists of those elected to associate membership, including women students from Girton College and Newnham College; printed statements of accounts; Hopkins Prize notices; reports of the Finance Committee and the Library Committee (from 1937); Library accounts...

Scope and Contents Many meetings in the mid-1940s were held in the tea room of the Mond Laboratory.The following items are regularly included: reports and minutes of committees, including Periodicals, Finance, Library, and Editorial (Proceedings); reports on accounts; and nominations of associate members of the Society.Additional items pasted in include:p.1 Typescript list of ‘Countries of origin of the Contributions to Biological Reviews from its beginnings up to Oct 1945’ received from H Munro...

Scope and Contents The following items are regularly included: reports and minutes of committees and sub-committees, including the Editorial Sub-Committee (Proceedings) (on pink paper), Finance Committee (on yellow paper), Periodicals Sub-Committee (on blue paper); and Philosophical Library Committee; and nominations for associate membership.Additional items pasted in include:p.47 List of undergraduate scientific societies [1955];p.54 Memorandum by the Treasurer concerning the rise in publishing...

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This volume contains only minutes of meetings: there are no additional items pasted in.

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Volumes 5-11 are paginated. From 1850 additional items are often tipped or pasted in to the volumes. The minutes are written by hand from 1819 to 1933 (Volume 1 to part way through Volume 8). From 11 December 1933 the minutes are on typescript sheets tipped or pasted into the volumes.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes 5-11 are paginated. From 1850 additional items are often tipped or pasted in to the volumes. The minutes are written by hand from 1819 to 1933 (Volume 1 to part way through Volume 8). From 11 December 1933 the minutes are on typescript sheets tipped or pasted into the volumes.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes 5-11 are paginated. From 1850 additional items are often tipped or pasted in to the volumes. The minutes are written by hand from 1819 to 1933 (Volume 1 to part way through Volume 8). From 11 December 1933 the minutes are on typescript sheets tipped or pasted into the volumes.

Scope and Contents From the Series:

Volumes 5-11 are paginated. From 1850 additional items are often tipped or pasted in to the volumes. The minutes are written by hand from 1819 to 1933 (Volume 1 to part way through Volume 8). From 11 December 1933 the minutes are on typescript sheets tipped or pasted into the volumes.

Scope and Contents Volumes 1, 5-8 and 10 are paginated (volume 1 is paginated to p. 51 only). Additional items are often tipped or pasted in to the volumes. The minutes are written by hand from 1819 to 1935 (Volume 1 to part way through Volume 7). From 28 October 1935 the minutes are on typescript sheets tipped or pasted into the volumes.Early minutes record the following: reading and confirmation of minutes of the previous meeting; motions brought / notices and letters etc read out to the meeting;...

Scope and Contents 30 October 1819: ‘The resident members of the University, who have taken their first degree, are hereby invited to assemble at the Lecture Room, under the Public Library at twelve o’clock, on Tuesday Nov 2, for the purpose of instituting a society, as a point of concourse, for scientific communications’.The minutes of a meeting held on 3 November 1819, chaired by Dr Haviland, record that the society was duly instituted at the meeting on 2 November. P.3: report of the committee elected on...

Scope and Contents 16 May 1832: resolution concerning the building of a ‘new house for the Society’;15 May 1833: impression of the Society’s seal ‘representing a figure of Sir Isaac Newton resembling the statue in the Chapel of Trinity College’;16 November 1835: extracts of letters were read from Sir J Herschel and Charles Darwin, the latter containing ‘accounts of the geology of - - - the Andes and S. America’;14 December 1835: further communications from Charles Darwin;30 April 1844: special...

Scope and Contents 9 February 1857: bye-laws pasted in, initialled and confirmed by George Paget;25 February 1861: note of the British Association meeting to be held in Cambridge in the summer of 1862;10 November 1862: a letter from the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth, 8 November 1862, accepting the Society’s invitation ‘to succeed the lamented Prince Consort as Patron’ is tipped in;5 February 1866: special general meeting agrees to affix the Society’s seal to a deed assigning the lease from St...

Scope and Contents 9 May 1881: printed report of the Council of the Society, 25 April 1881, relating to premises, Library and relations with the University of Cambridge;26 February 1883: reading of first paper by a woman? (Miss Johnson ‘On the development of the pelvic girdle and hind limb of the chick’);13 February 1888: loose, printed note entitled ‘Preliminary note on the Physiology of Sponges by George Bidder, BA, Trinity College’;1889 and 1890: statements of accounts for 1888 and 1889...

Scope and Contents Meetings recorded in this volume were held variously at the Cavendish Laboratory; the Chemical Laboratory; the Optical Lecture Room; the Observatory; the School of Agriculture; the New Medical School; the Botany School; the Comparative Anatomy Lecture Room; the University Botanical Laboratory; and the Engineering Laboratory.5 June 1899: special meeting held at the Cavendish Laboratory for the presentation of papers to be published in a volume commemorating Sir George Stokes’ long...

Scope and Contents Meetings recorded in this volume were held variously at the Cavendish Laboratory; the Chemical Laboratory; the Optical Lecture Room; the Observatory; the School of Agriculture; the New Medical School; the Botany School; the Comparative Anatomy Lecture Room; the University Botanical Laboratory; and the Engineering Laboratory.8 March 1922: special meeting to consider the financial situation of the Society, with various related printed papers tipped in;12 June 1923: special meeting to...

Scope and Contents Meetings recorded in this volume were held variously at the Cavendish Laboratory; the Chemical Laboratory; the Botany School; the Comparative Anatomy Lecture Room; the Engineering Laboratory, Scroope House; the Pathology School; the Molteno Institute of Parasitology; the Physical Chemistry Laboratory; the School of Agriculture; the Physiology Lecture Theatre; the Zoological Laboratory; the Department of Geography; the Department of Colloid Science; the Department of Anatomy; the University...

Scope and Contents Meetings were held variously at the Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, the Arts School, the Department of Radiotherapeutics, and the Zoology, Chemical, Engineering and Cavendish Laboratories. From the early 1960s onwards many took place in the Arts School. Some meetings were held jointly with other bodies, including: the Cambridge University Meteorological Society; the Physics Society; the Archimedeans; the University Veterinary School, the University Engineering Society; the University Chemical...

Scope and Contents Meetings were held chiefly at the Arts School; also the Cavendish Laboratory, the University Chemical Laboratory, and the Cockcroft Lecture Theatre at the New Museums site. Some meetings did not host a speaker and record only minutes of business and membership matters.Speakers of note include: George Salt, Antony Hewish, Lord Ashby, Joseph Needham, D W Sciama, Frederick Sanger, and Martin Rees.External visits for demonstrations of research work etc include: Tracked Hovercraft Ltd,...

Scope and Contents Meetings were held chiefly at the Arts School or the Cockcroft Lecture Theatre at the New Museums site.Speakers of note include: Janet Watson, FRS; Terry English FRCS (Papworth Hospital surgeon); James Melcher, MIT; Archie Howie, D Lynden-Bell, A C Renfrew; and Sir Hans Kornberg.External visits for demonstrations of research work etc include: Kodak Ltd, Harrow; Tube Investments Research Laboratories, Hinxton Hall; Napp Laboratories, Cambridge Science Park; Johnson Matthey Chemicals...