| RefNo | RSC/1/6 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Attendances and menus at meetings of the Royal Society Club |
| Date | 30 July 1772-22 July 1779 |
| Description | Commencing [p.1] with a notes on the ordering of the dinners, followed by a list of members and their admission dates, with honorary members [pp.2-5]; and annual accounts [pp.6-17]. Most of the volume contains lists of attendees (including 'visitors', e.g. guests) at each weekly dated meeting, with an accompanying list of the foodstuffs consumed. There are occasional gifts from club members [for example p.22, 'The company being entertained with venison from the Earl of Hardwick his Lordships Health was drank in Claret...']. |
| Extent | 1 volume; |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink on paper. Bound in crimson leather, raised bands, with brass clasps. Gilded decoration to spine and boards. Paper label to spine '6'. |
| Dimensions | 169x119mm. |
| AccessStatus | Open |