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 1886;
p.58 Auditor’s report, 30 May 1887 (Horace Darwin and W Shaw, auditors);
p.102 (loose) Letter from John Willis Clark, President of the Society, to the Master of Peterhouse asking if the syndics [of Cambridge University Press] will undertake the whole cost of printing the Society’s Proceedings as well as the Transactions, 29 October 1888;
p.108 Reply from James Porter, Deputy Vice-Chancellor; also printed statement of accounts of the Society for 9 February to 31 December 1888, 24 January 1889 (A S Lea and H M Taylor, auditors);
p.116 Report by [Lord] Rayleigh, G G Stokes and J C Adams recommending the award of the Hopkins Prize to W Thomson for mathematical research, 2 March 1889;
p.123 Note from the adjudicators of the Hopkins Prize concerning the award to Prof G H Darwin FRS ‘for his researches upon the physics of the Earth’;
p.142 Printed list of names proposed for honorary membership [1890], annotated by hand;
p.235 Note concerning the award of the Hopkins Prize to J J Thomson, 1894.
p.142 Printed list of names proposed for honorary membership [1890], annotated by hand;
From 1889 the following items are regularly included: notes concerning the Hopkins Prize; printed statements of accounts; printed lists of dates of meetings; and letters concerning the Library and printing of the Society’s publications.