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Reference Number496.5 BA9360/A7/Box 1/2
Hierarchy Browser Number8001/1/2/17/2
TitleLibrary and Museum Committee
DescriptionHandwritten minutes of the committee. Matters discussed include accounts and other financial matters; acquisition, lending and disposal of books, newspapers etc; formation, duties, reports and some minutes of the sub-committees; amalgamation of the Library and Museum with the Science and Arts schools and the Art Gallery; catalogue; donations and bequests, often naming benefactor and listing items donated; fire insurance and precautions; appointment, holidays, wages and complaints concerning library and museum staff and apprentices; lectures (for Book Fund); museum specimens; librarian's and curator's reports; herbarium (donations to and thefts from); the Whinfield library; building maintenance, cleaning and repair; deliberate damage caused; a weekly staff timetable; University Extension lectures; Queen's Jubilee; Upton Snodsbury saxon antiquities; Victoria Institute; Technical Instruction Bill going through Parliament in the 1880s; theatricals to benefit the library Book Fund; and loans of museum specimens to external organisations.

The front of the volume contain an alphabetical index. Unanimous decisions are recorded as such, occasionally the number of dissenters is recorded. Binding secure but cover is scuffed and slightly torn.
Date1884-1890
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