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Description: | A bound volume of minutes preceded by list of officers, members, rules, signatures of members and lists of the subjects of lectures, readings, debates and conversation topics. The lectures etc. are indexed. The minutes listed the members present and the presiding chairman. The nomination and election of new members was recorded as were resignations from the club. The Treasurer's Balance Sheet was written out in the minutes of the quarterly meetings along with the programme for the following quarter. When lectures and debates took place a summary of the main points was minuted. A full list of readings was included in the minutes as well as the reader. Other business recorded included discussions about the venue, the provision of coffee at some meetings and modification of the rules. Attached at various points in the book are printed cards giving the programme of events and officers of the Club and Programmes of Annual Meetings detailing the agenda and entertainment. There are also some tables of attendance recorded. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Archives / Local History Centre | Rights holder: | n/a | Subjects: | Literary societies | Temporal: | 1860 - 1863 | Source: | Black Country History | Creator: | Verulam Club | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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