| Description | Hand-written minutes of meetings of the Gilchrist Trust Committee, and of the Local Lecture Committee.
Gilchrist Trust Committee minutes cover plans for the use of the Gilchrist Trust grant - including scholarships and lectures in Chemistry, Experimental Physics, Geology, Mechanics, and Political Economy. Volume details the withdrawal of the grant provided in the previous two sessions for Popular Lectures, following the collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank [1879].
The Local Lecture Committee meeting minutes cover the delivery of local lectures in 1879 despite the withdrawal of the Gilchrist Trust grant, delivered by University College Bristol lecturers and professors in partnership with local colleges in Swansea, Warminster, Bridgewater, Weston and Frome.
Contains a hand-written table detailing lecture topic, location, date and day of the week, and names of University College Bristol teaching staff giving lectures.
Majority of the volume is empty. |