| Description | College Journals or minute books, record College meetings with details of accounts and finances, management of college estate, examinations, entrance of doctors to college, election of fellows, etc. From volume 5 onwards the journals contain much more detail, including copies of letters and related documents. Initially the College Journals record the minutes of a single committee, by the mid nineteenth century this has split to business and examinations meetings.
Early minute books are manuscript, over time an increasing number of printed documents appear, including printed yearly summery of accounts, reports, newspaper articles, by the mid-twentieth century the manuscript minutes are replaced by sheets of typescript minutes. |