Guide to the Records of the Royal Society of Arts (as filmed by the AJCP)
M1828
National Library of Australia View Catalogue Record
Created: 2019
Collection Summary
- Creator
- Royal Society of Arts
- Title
- Records of the Royal Society of Arts (as filmed by the AJCP)
- Date Range
- 1788 - 1885
- Collection Number
- M1828
- Extent
- 51 items
- Language of Materials
- English
- Repository
- Australian Joint Copying Project
- Sponsor
- The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) online portal was created with the assistance of the Australian Public Service Modernisation Fund, 2017-2020. The National Library of Australia gratefully acknowledges the contribution of the other foundation AJCP partners, the State Library of New South Wales and The National Archives of the UK, and all other organisations which supported the work of the AJCP, the world's most extensive collaborative copying project, operating from 1948 to 1997.
Introduction
Scope and Contents
Transactions 1788-1845 including report on Tahitian bread-fruit, wine and wool imported from New South Wales, and New Zealand flax.
Committee minute-books 1793-1885 referring to wool, brandy and wine imported from New South Wales, flax from New Zealand, bark cloth from Sandwich Islands, and tinned meat from Australia.
Conditions Governing Access
Available for Access.
Conditions Governing Use
Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
The Royal Society of Arts reserve the copyright of items in Sections II, III and IV. Authors of scholarly works are welcome to publish extracts providing they make the customary acknowledgement to the Society and communicate their intention to The Royal Society of Arts.
Preferred Citation
Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
Archival History
Material selectively filmed at the Royal Society of Arts, London, as part of the Australian Joint Copying Project, 1983 (AJCP Reel: M1828). Original microfilm digitised as part of the AJCP Online Delivery Project, 2017-2020.
Existence and Location of Originals
Royal Society of Arts. 8 John Adam Street, Adelphi, London WC2N 6EZ, England. For more information see the Royal Society of Arts Archives Catalogue (http://www.calmview2.eu/RSA/CalmViewA/Default.aspx).
Existence and Location of Copies
The original AJCP microfilm of the records filmed from this collection is available at the National Library of Australia [https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn746670] as well as other institutions holding AJCP microfilm.
Administrative History
The Royal Society of Arts was founded in 1754, largely on the initiative of William Shipley who had published 'Proposals for raising by subscription a fund to be distributed in Premiums for the promoting of improvements in the liberal arts and sciences, manufactures etc.'. Lord Folkestone was the first President and Shipley was the first Secretary. The membership expanded rapidly and the Society's income rose from £360 in 1755 to £4,614 in 1763. Applications for prizes were referred to a number of committees: Agriculture, Chemistry, Polite Arts, Manufactures, Mechanics, Colonies and Trade. By 1764 380 premiums had been established, including 123 relating to the colonies. The Society published many pamphlets and in 1783 the Transactions commenced publication. In the 1840s the Society nearly became bankrupt and gradually the granting of premiums came to an end. Instead it became chiefly concerned with organizing lectures and publishing papers on a wide range of subjects in the weekly Journal, which first appeared in 1852. It played a leading role in the Great Exhibition of 1851 and in later special and international exhibitions. It promoted the establishment of the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria and Albert Museum) and other museums, and took an active interest in international postage, patents, artistic copyright, the erection of memorial tablets in London, and the encouragement of industrial education. In the 1850s it established a system of examinations on many subjects, mainly intended for working class students. In 1852 the Society invited the formation of colonial societies and a small number of colonial societies were established.
Reference: D. Hudson and K.N. Luckhurst. The Royal Society of Arts 1754-1954. (London, J. Murray, 1954)
Finding-aid Notes
This finding aid is a revised online version of the original finding aid prepared by the Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP), published by the National Library of Australia in 2019. The original AJCP finding aids were unpublished typescripts or photocopies available from libraries that held copies of the original microfilm.
Dates used in this finding aid refer to the date range of the records selected for filming rather than to the date range of the Series or Files.
Subjects
Australia; Flax; Great Britain; Hawaii; Meat industry and trade; Royal Society of Arts; Tahiti: botany; Trade: Australia; Wine industry and trade; Wool and woolgrowing: export
Bibliography
Originally cited in Australian Joint Copying Project Handbook. Part 8: Miscellaneous (M) Series. Third Edition, published 1998. Entry 400, p. 154.
Item Descriptions
Series I. Transactions, 1788 - 1845
28 itemsVolume 40, 1822 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Gold medals (Item ff. 230-36)
Awarded to J. Macarthur for finest sample and import of greatest quantity of N.S.W. wool and to Starkey, Buckley and Co. for manufacture of fine cloth from N.S.W. wool.
Although described individually, this letter was originally microfilmed with a page from another letter. The last page of the letter described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-1483708683.
Volume 41, 1822 - 1823 (File)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Premium for imports (Item f. xxxvi)
Includes:
Premium for import of greatest quantity of tea from N.S.W. (no.300)
Premium for import of greatest quantity of dried fruits from N.S.W. (no.302)
Premium for import of greatest quantity of extract of Mimosa bark from N.S.W. (no.305)
Premium for substitute for hemp, especially New Zealand flax. (no.306)
Volume 42, 1823 - 1824 (File)
6 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series II. Committee Minute Books, 26 November 1793 - 30 November 1885
30 itemsMinute book, 8 March 1822 - 27 April 1822 (File)
8 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 14 March 1823 - 31 May 1823 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Colonies and Trade, 14 March 1823 (Item ff. 392-95)
Silver medal awarded to G. Blaxland for import of finest wine from N.S.W.
Colonies and Trade, 31 May 1823 (Item ff. 400-6)
Establishment of new premiums, including import of New Zealand flax, import of tea from N.S.W., import of dried fruits from N.S.W., and import of extract from Mimosa bark from N.S.W.
Although described individually, this letter was originally microfilmed with a page from another letter. The last page of the letter described can be found at the beginning of nla.obj-1483709840.
Minute book, 2 December 1823 - 6 May 1824 (File)
7 itemsFilmed selectively.
Manufactures, 1 March 1824 (Item ff. 160-62)
Claim by D. Maclean for manufacture of finest cloth from wool imported from N.S.W.
Colonies and Trade, 2 December 1823 (Item ff. 411-15)
Includes:
Request by R. Wilmot Horton for report on value of articles imported from N.S.W.
Award of bounty to T. Kent for producing extract from Mimosa bark.
Colonies and Trade, 17 February 1824 - 6 May 1824 (Item ff. 421-28)
Includes:
Award of bounty to T. Kent. [17 February 1824]
Claim by J. Macarthur for import of greatest quantity of wool from N.S.W. [26 March 1824]
Gold medal awarded to J. Macarthur. [6 May 1824]
Silver medal awarded to H. Macarthur for fine wool imported from N.S.W. [6 May 1824]
Minute book, 19 November 1824 - 26 April 1825 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 19 November 1827 - 10 June 1828 (File)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 10 February 1833 - 20 May 1833 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 20 January 1834 - 17 May 1834 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 27 February 1836 - 14 May 1836 (File)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 20 November 1837 - 30 November 1837 (File)
2 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 30 November 1843 - 13 May 1844 (File)
4 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 9 January 1845 - 19 May 1845 (File)
3 itemsFilmed selectively.
Minute book, 3 February 1869 - 9 March 1870 (File)
5 itemsFilmed selectively.
Series III. Correspondence, 28 October 1797 - 18 April 1850
4 itemsFilmed selectively.