| Description | Bills, receipts and financial accounts for expenses incurred from suppliers of goods and services. These outlays were in support of the Royal Society's conversaziones, or soirees: the majority of payments took place in the period March to May 1870. The events were still referred to as the 'President's soirees' at this period, with expenses reimbursed to the Royal Society by the sitting President. Several bills are made out to General Sir Edward Sabine PRS, therefore. |