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Archives Collection: Institutional Papers

Contents of the Archives Catalogue

The Council

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
MBA Council documents.
1884-1995 (ongoing) Letters, papers, manuscript and printed reports and notices [MC]
Note: Council meetings normally held quarterly; with annual general meetings, and occasional special meetings. The office of Honorary Secretary was abolished in 1902, from which date the Director also acted as Secretary. See Lankester papers and Director's Office MD 1.1 file for other early Council material.
Summary: Includes minutes of Council, annual general and special meetings; agendas and reports to Council (including Director's reports); Director's Council files (1937-1974); notices to Council and to members, lists of officers, Council and scientific staff, lists of Governors, Founders and Members, and other printed material.

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
MBA Council meeting documents.
1884-1995 (ongoing) Manuscript and printed reports and notices [MC1]
Note: Quarterly Council meetings, annual general and special meetings.
Summary: Includes original (signed) minutes of Council and Annual General meetings; Agendas and reports to Council (including Director's reports) (with duplicate sets); duplicated/printed Council minutes; Annual General Meeting notices; Notices of Special Meetings.

MBA Council minute books.
1884-1995 (ongoing) Signed minutes, with enclosures and attached letters, with set of printed/duplicated copies for 1948-1995 [MC1.1]
Note: Minutes of quarterly meetings. Only available for consultation by special permission.
Summary: Bound volumes of signed minutes for the years: 1884-1886; 1886-1891; 1891-1901; 1901- 1907; 1907-1914; 1915-1924; 1925-1932; 1933-1940; 1941-1945; 1946-1949; 1949-1953; 1953-1958; 1958-1963; 1963-1967; 1968-1975; unbound volumes for 1976-1984; 1985-1988; 1989-1994. Printed/duplicated copies (bound) for 1948-1962; 1963-1974; 1975-1984, and unbound 1985-1995.
Minutes of the MBA annual general meetings.
1884-1995 (ongoing) Volumes of signed minutes [MC1.2]
Summary: Bound volumes for the years: 1884-1912; 1913-1949; 1950-1968; 1969-1989; with unbound set for 1990-1995.
MBA Council agendas and reports.
1895-1995 (ongoing) Bound volumes and sets of spare copies [MC1.3] Summary: Bound volumes, including Director's reports, for: 1895-1903; 1904-1911; 1912-1928; 1929-1938; 1939-1949; 1950-1960; 1961-1974; 1975-1984; with 1985-1994 unbound. Spare sets, in bundles covering 1895-1902 and 1935-1974. Spare copies of Director's reports in folders 1975-1981 and 1982-1985.
MBA Council notices to members regarding meetings.
1927-1974 Leaflets [MC1.4]
Summary: Annual General Meeting notices: 1927 and 1941-1974. Notices of Special Meetings: April 1927; May 1927; October 1938.

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
Director's Council documents.
1937-1974 Letters and reports [MC2]
Summary: Files for the years: 1937-1948; 1949-1953; 1954-1965; 1965-1974. Director's Council diary (1937). Director's annotated copies of MBA Council agendas and reports (1922-1940). Arrangements for lunch for retiring President - Carl Pantin (1966).

Director's Council files.
1937-1948     Letters and reports    [MC2.1] Director's Council files.
1949-1953     Letters and reports     [MC2.2] Director's Council files.
1954-1965     Letters and reports     [MC2.3] Director's Council files.
1965-1974     Letters and reports     [MC2.4] Director's Council diary.
1937     Hardback "Scribbling diary"     [MC2.5]
Director's annotated copies of Council agendas and reports.
1922-1940 Printed booklets and leaflets, and manuscript sheets [MC2.6]

DIRECTOR'S OFFICE
Printed material relating to MBA Council and members.
1884-1995 Reports and leaflets. [MC3]
Summary: Includes Bye-laws (1884) (including list of Council members), and 1885; Memorandum and Articles of the Association (1927, 1945, 1971 and 1995); Lists of Governors, Founders and Members: 19 lists covering various years (1994-1974); Lists of Officers, Council and scientific staff (1947-1972); Reports of the Council (reprinted from JMBA) (1906/07, 1918, 1943/44, 1950/51); Annual accounts (reprinted from JMBA) (1982-1985); Appeal to members for donations towards the cost of a memorial monument to Prince Albert 1st of Monaco, with an account of the inauguration of the statue, and a photograph (added 1995); copies of a scroll sent by the Council to the Royal Society on the tercentenary of the Society (1960).