The members of Council of the Society were selected as the Royal Commission for the British Section of the Exhibition.\nThese Minutes include the meeting of the Chicago Committee of the Royal Commission and the sub committees created to manage the British section of the exhibition.
Correspondents include: Dugald Clerk, Walter Crane, Alfred Carpmael (the Society's solicitor), George Hayter Chubb, Coutts (bank), Alan S Cole, Frank Cundall.\nAlso includes correspondence about a proposed Indian and Colonial Exhibition in 1904, the Chadwick Trust and repairs to the Society's house
Correspondents include: Alexander Siemens (& Co), Lord Strathcona, Lord Sanderson, Edwin O Sachs, St Pancras Borough Council (about Dr Swiney's tomb),subjects covered include advertising in the Journal (Street & Co)
Correspondents include: Carmichael Thomas (Editor of The Graphic), Sylvanus Thompson.
Includes correspondence from Lord Alverstone (including his comments on a proposed relocation of the Society to Burlington Gardens), Lord Armstrong, Frederick Abel, and Alliance Insurance; letter about appeal for funds from the Third International Art Congress of 1908, correspondence about William Shipley's tomb and views on stimulating the nation's workforce
Correspondents include: J S Haldane; topics include lease of Adelphi premises and restoration of William Shipley's tomb in Maidstone
Correspondents include: Arthur Lazonby Liberty, Joseph Lister the London Institution (about a proposed merger), the London County Council (examinations etc), E V Lucas, Seymour Lucas (about his portrait of Frederick Bramwell), John Lawes (Albert medallist), J C Lamb (Chairman of Council)
Correspondents include: G K Menzies (Assistant Secretary/Journal Editor), John Murray (publisher), Philip Magnus (City & Guilds of London Institute), Guiseppe Marconi, Hiram Maxim
Correspondents include: William Preece, Joseph Pennell, Lord Ponsonby (Prince of Wales's equerry)
Correspondents include: J Wolfe Barry, Henry Truman Wood, Henry Wheatley (Assistant Secretary), Sir William White,Sir Richard Webster,Aston Webb,Henry Wilde(Albert medallist), Hedger Wallace, Thomas Wardle (about silk).
Correspondents include: Lewis F Day, Ruth M Day,George Davison, and S Digby
Correspondents include: Lord Knollys (King's equerry), Knox & Co (Society's Auditors); topics include examination queries, advertising in the Journal (Walter Judd Ltd), the Imperial International Exhibition of 1909, The Japan-British Exhibition of 1910, examinations, correspondence with the Home Office and others about using the title 'Royal Society of Arts'
Correspondents include:H A Roberts, Owen Roberts, Halsey Ricardo, Edward Rigg, Alleyne Reynolds, Royal Drawing Society
Correspondents include: O J Burne; George Birdwood (numerous items); Frederick Bramwell; J Wolfe Barry; J H Brigg; Major Baden-Powell\nAlso includes correspondence from the Prince of Wales' equerry about Society activities and awards of medals
Correspondents include: Charles and Peter le Neve Foster, Dr J A Fleming. Also correspondence about the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908
Correspondents include: George Grove, Lawrence Gomme
Bound volumes containing reprints from the Journal of Cantor Lectures \n\nThe Cantor Lectures were named after Dr. Edward Theodore Cantor who was a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service. Upon his death in 1860 he bequeathed the sum of £5,042 to the Society in order to promote our objectives (encouraging arts, manufacture and commerce). He does not seem to have been a Member of the Society and in making this bequest he neglected to make any provision for his mother who was still alive and had depended on him greatly. The Society decided to give her an annual allowance of £25 for the rest of her life. She died in 1867. \n\nSome debate was taken as how best to use the money as Cantor himself had made no specific request. It was decided to begin a course of lectures on industrial technology which ran annually and began in 1864. The last series of Cantor Lectures took place in 1990.\n