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COU/8
Title
Authority of the Council
Date(s)
- 1841-1912 (Creation)
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1 folder
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(1826-)
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Papers regarding the authority of the council of the Zoological Society of London, including the legal opinion on the right of Council to grant pensions to staff and office; information regarding the illegality of Council's submitting its acts performed by virtue of the powers so conferred on them for confirmation or reversal by a General Meeting of the Fellows; Council's authority to appoint staff without reference to the Fellows; original authority for paying the Secretary; legal opinion regarding Dr Sclater's pension; authority to the Society to dispose of property and a codicil to Sir Peter Chalmers Mitchell's will
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- Sclater, Philip Lutley (Subject)
- Mitchell, Peter Chalmers (Subject)