| AdminHistory | There were normally two General meetings of the Board of Trustees 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. There were normally only two items of business - the approval of the minutes of the previous General meeting, and approval of the minutes of the Standing Committee which were summarised by the Director in a verbal precis.
The sub-committees set up to deal with the BM(NH) 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. |