General Assembly minutes, vol. 8

1 vol., 386pp.

Volume of minutes of the General Assembly, including the following selected entries: confirmation of resolution that the signing of voting papers be discontinued, 30 June 1882; confirmation of resolution to contribute £100 to the cost of the excavations at Ephesus, Turkey, 29 December 1882; confirmation of resolution “that a suitable railing be placed around all the exhibition galleries”, 5 December 1883; the rejection, by 24 votes to 9, of a Council resolution to establish a life class for the study of the partially draped figure for female students, following a petition signed by 64 female Schools students, 30 January 1884; confirmation of resolution to issue an illustrated catalogue of the summer exhibition, 26 March 1885 and further, 26 February 1886; confirmation of resolution that Associates be eligible as Professors in Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, 15 July 1886; approval of the 1887 Special Committee resolution to set the maximum age of admission for Schools students at twenty-three, 20 February 1889; confirmation of other resolutions of the 1887 Special Committee: the class of engravers to include all artists who produce works of art by any form of engraving, the Council to include one sculptor and one architect at all times [further amended, 27 January 1892], the Council to have the power to appoint lecturers to vacant professorships limited to members when there was no candidate, a Day School of Modelling to be established for male and female students, the Evening School of Modelling to be open to male students only and none of the works done by Schools students to be eligible for the summer exhibition, 21 November 1889; a note that the Keeper, Philip Hermogenes Calderon had been asked to submit photographs to the General Assembly in order to illustrate the phrase “partially draped” with reference to the report of the Council on Briton Riviere’s motion proposing that female students be allowed to study from the partially draped male model, 5 December 1889; complaint of Henry Tanworth Wells that the Council had introduced electric lighting into Burlington House without the sanction of the General Assembly, the President, Leighton’s reply, 5 December 1893 and further, 1 December 1894; confirmation of resolution that attendance at chemistry lectures be no longer compulsory for sculpture students, 5 December 1893; confirmation of resolution to raise the age of admission for students in sculpture from 23 to 25, 16 January 1894; confirmation, by twenty-one votes to three, of resolution to give Visitors the option to set the male model for female students undraped, except about the loins: the drapery to consist of “ordinary bathing drawers and a cloth of light material” with a thin leather strap round the loins “in order to insure that the cloth keep its place”, 28 March 1894; confirmation of Council resolution that the age of admission for architecture students be raised from 23 to 25, 28 March 1894; the General Assembly’s expression of sorrow at the death of the President, Lord Leighton, 28 January 1896 and the decision to suspend the annual dinner as a result, 2 March 1896; and Henry Tanworth Wells’s complaint that the meeting of Council held on 3 November 1896 had been illegal because there had been no President at that date, 5 December 1896.