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Cambridge Philosophical Society: Council minutes Volume 8, 1923-10-15 - 1945-06-04

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Reference Code: GBR/0279/CPS 2/1/8

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 (from p.455).
Other items tipped / pasted in include:
p.1 Stock list of Transactions and Proceedings, July 1923;
p.77 Report of the committee on Biological Proceedings;
p.103 Letter from H Munro Fox resigning as secretary to the Biological Proceedings;
p.126 Letter from the Royal Society inviting nomination of a representative of the Cambridge Philosophical Society to replace E W Hobson on the National Committee for Mathematics, 1 October 1927;
p.145 Invitation to the Society to designate delegates to the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928 in Bologna;
p.223 Invitation from the University of Cambridge to the Society to take part in the commemoration of the centenary of the birth of James Clark Maxwell, 1931;
p.225 Note of the costs of printing ‘Proceedings’ and ‘Biological Reviews’, 1928-30;
p.231 Letter from the Royal Society concerning a donation towards the cost of publishing Proceedings and Biological Reviews, 3 July 1931;
p.291 Memorandum on the Future of the Philosophical Library (1933);
1933-37: Minutes of joint meetings of the Council of the Society and the Philosophical Library Committee;
1935: Report concerning the move of the Philosophical Library to the Arts School;
p.383 Recommendations of the Periodicals Sub-Committee;
p.390 Letter from the Royal Society concerning a donation towards the cost of publications, 9 July 1937;
p.404 Suggested alterations to the 1929 bye-laws;
p.411 Letter from H Munro Fox to J D Cockcroft concerning an honorarium to be paid to H M F as editor of Biological Reviews for a period of three years;
p.413 Report from the Editorial Committee for the Proceedings;
p.417 Note on publication of ‘Research Notes’ in the Proceedings;
p.491 Letter from E K Rideal of Cambridge University Dept of Colloid Science (and President of the Society) to A H Wilson of Trinity College concerning the possibility of the establishment of a Department for the History of Science and a Museum, a scheme involving the Society, 17 January 1944.


















Dates

  • Creation: 1923-10-15 - 1945-06-04

Extent

1 volume(s) : paper

Language of Materials

English

Originator(s)

Cambridge Philosophical Society

Finding aid date

2015-05-08 10:23:56+00:00

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge Philosophical Society Repository

Contact:
CPS Archivist, Joan Bullock-Anderson
c/o Sedgwick Museum Archives, A G Brighton Building
Madingley Rise
Cambridge CB3 0UD