British Museum (Natural History): The Board of Trustees: Minutes of General and Sub-Committee...

This series consists of the signed minutes of all the general meetings of the Board of Trustees which took place at the British Museum (Natural History) from 1903 until the abolition of the Board in 1963. There were normally two meetings each year in February and July, except for the period 1942-1947 when meetings were annual. Ten or twelve of the fifty Trustees were usually in attendance, although only five or six atttended the meetings for 1942 and 1944-1946, which were abandoned as inquorate.

Also included are the minutes of sub-committees of the Standing Committee which were set up to deal with the British Museum (Natural History). These included long-standing sub-committees on the departments of Geology, Mineralogy and Botany and on the departments of Zoology and Entomology. Other sub-committees considered the buildings, accommodation, extension of the Museum, purchases, electric lighting, finance and publications. The keepers' reports, which formed the main business of the two sub-committees on the science departments are referred to in the minutes but not included in the volume. The sub-committee meetings were generally attended by five or six members, although the quorum was only two.

Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF TRU/901). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 901.

Keeper's reports are in DF 904

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