| Description | The following special sub-committees were formed for specific reasons, sometimes sitting for just one session, for the purpose of undertaking the project stated in the sub-committee title. The description here lists all relevant minute volumes, dates and minute numbers together. This has been done to avoid making the hierarchical structure of the catalogue too complicated. The special sub-committees that reported to the Museum and Art Gallery Committee are listed below.
1. Special sub-committees 1912 - 1917:
August 1912 - October 1912, minutes 1 - 12 (Natural History Museum).
January 1917, minutes 1 - 4 (Museum of Casts).
These minutes are in the Special Sub-Committees Minutes Volume, and include the Special Selection Sub-Committee minutes BCC/1/BQ/2/1/1, as well as the John Feeney Bequest Fund Special Sub-Committee minutes, and is labelled as such on reverse side. The volume has been given the reference BCC/1/BQ/9/1/1.
2. Special sub-committees 1921 - 1968:
February 1927 - April 1927, minutes 1 - 10 (Appointment of Keeper).
November 1927 - May 1928, minutes 1 - 8 (Appointment of Assistant).
June 1930 - July 1930, no minutes (Staff Wages and Holidays).
November 1932, no minutes (Appointment of Assistant).
November 1933 - December 1934, no minutes (Chamberlain Museum).
February 1934 - July 1934, minutes 1 - 43 (Industrial Art Exhibition).
December 1934 - July 1938, minutes 1 - 8 (Lunt Bequest).
January 1935, no minutes (Appointment of Assistant).
January 1936, no minutes (Publicity).
March 1938 – April 1938, no minutes (Appointment of Assistant).
September 1950, no minutes (Appointment of Assistant).
October 1950, minutes 1 - 2 (Museum and Art Gallery/Transport Department Meeting).
January 1951 - March 1951, minutes 1 - 4 (Festival of Britain).
September 1951, minutes 1 (Appointment of Assistant Keeper).
October 1950, minutes 1 - 2 (Museum and Art Gallery/Transport Department Meeting).
January 1951 - March 1951, minutes 1 - 4 (Festival of Britain).
May 1954, minutes 1 - 2 (Chamberlain Museum).
March 1956 - June 1956, minutes 1 - 8 (Appointments).
October 1957 - November 1957, minutes 1 (Botanical Gardens).
November 1965, minutes 1 - 6 (Appointment of Keeper).
The above minutes are in the appropriately dated, combined minute volumes (see BCC/1/BQ/8). |