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Minutes of Council 3
GB 891 RAS GOV1-RAS GOV1/4 · File · 20th Feb 1830 - 30th Mar 1833
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Minutes of Council Meetings

Proceedings of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society - signed minutes; index at back of volume of some significant items and names. Hardcover bound lined notebook with red/brown leather cover. Some decay and damage to spine. Handwritten.

Minutes of Council 4
GB 891 RAS GOV1-RAS GOV1/5 · File · 13th Apr 1833 - 15th Apr 1837
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Minutes of Council Meetings

Proceedings of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society - signed minutes; index at back of volume of some significant items and names. Hardcover bound lined notebook with red/brown leather cover with rebinding of the spine. Some decay. Handwritten.

GB 891 RAS GOV1-RAS GOV1/17 · File · 14th Jan 1943 - 12th Mar 1981
Part of Royal Asiatic Society Governance: Minutes of Council Meetings

Minutes of proceedings of Council; signed minutes. Includes also Special Meetings of the Council:

  • In July and September 1946 concerning the sale of the lease of 74 Grosvenor Street for £25,000 and purchase of lease of 56 Queen Anne Street for £8,000.
  • In June and October 1969 to discuss and agree new Rules of the Society.
  • In June 1976 to discuss the potential sale of the Qajar painting to a buyer in Tehran
  • In March 1978 to reconstitute the Development Committer to discuss ways to improve the financial position of the Society
  • In January 1979 to consider problems relating to the disposal of the assets of the Society, particularly the Javanese Relief to the Victoria and Albert museum and some manuscripts in the Edinburgh University Library

Hardcover blue and red volume with typed minutes glued into its pages. Binding needs some repair.