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 British Association, 5 February 1907;
p.28 It was agreed that 'Samuel Matthews [Librarian] should be adequately remunerated for his very efficient services';
p.32 Data compiled in connection with a proposal to establish a life membership category;
p.52 Letter from S F Harmer, Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, 8 February 1908, relating to an offer to CPS of some works from the Newton Bequest;
p.85 Report of a committee appointed to consider arrangements for the International Congress of Mathematicians, January 1909;
p.99 Letter from A Sedgwick, declining to continue as President of the Society, 8 October 1909;
p.185 Printed notice cancelling the anniversary dinner on account of the death of Sir George Darwin, former President of the Society, 1912;
p.193 Letter from J Stanley Gardiner apologising for the dirty state of the meeting room, 1913;
p.211 Letter concerning the death of Alexander Ross Clark, an honorary member for circa 60 years, 11 February 1914;
p.213 Letter from Courtney Kenny, Downing College, advocating the election of women as honorary members, 24 February 1914;
p.235 Notice from the Official Press Bureau, Whitehall, advocating the exercise of vigilance in the publication of periodicals of learned societies in order to prevent the conveyance of ‘information of a kind to serve the purposes of the enemy’, 1 February 1916;
p.245 Letter from Karl Pearson of University College, London requesting free copies of Proceedings, 25 May 1916;
p.251 Official Press Bureau notice, 16 November 1916;
p.253 Two letters from Courtney Kenny, Downing College, concerning the donation by the Society to the Squire Library of Carnegie law books, 12 and 20 February 1917;
p.261 Three page document by G H Hardy, Honorary Secretary for Mathematics, containing suggestions for improvement of the Society’s publications [1918];
p.275 Report of the Committee on the Publications of the Philosophical Society, 1918;
1920 [no pagination from this point]: Minutes of the meeting of the Centenary Volume Committee, 8 December 1919 [concerning proposals for a centenary history];
1920: List of contents of the safe, drawn up by Mr C T R Wilson, November 1920;
7 January 1921: Letter recommending donation of books ‘to the unhappy men of science in Russia’;
10 February 1921: Memorandum of the Philosophical Library Committee concerning a proposal to extend the Library into the ‘Lecture Room of the Botanical Dept’, to be vacated by the Dept of Engineering;
1 March 1922: Letter from Henry Fairfield Osborn accepting an invitation to represent the Society at the Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York;
22 January 1922: list of proposals adopted by the Council concerning fees, associate membership and grants;
22 February 1922: Confidential printed reports concerning the financial position of the Society and its Library;
7 May 1922: Letter to A C Seward from Arthur Berry (King's College) suggesting admitting 'only qualified women to Fellowship'. The minutes note that 'It was decided to look up the facts before replying definitely';
22 October 1922: Report on the Proceedings of the Society including the suggestion of a new Biological Journal;
30 October 1922: it was 'agreed that consideration of the subject [ie admission of women] be postponed';
30 October 1922: CPS copy of Audubon's 'Birds of America' is valued at £300;
November 1922: printed regulations for admission of Fellows, Associates and Students;
27 November 1922: Further discussion re the question of the admission of members of Newnham and Girton as Fellows - decided to postpone till after the settlement of the question of the admission of women to titular degrees of Cambridge University;
22 December 1922: Report of the Committee appointed to consider the publication of a new series of Biological Proceedings;
5 March 1923: copy of a minute passed by the Syndicate of Cambridge University Press writing off the Society’s debt to the Press for 1922.