Minutes of meetings of the Council, including the following selected entries: record of events leading up to the resignation of
Humphrey Brooke as Secretary, 21 May - 16 July 1968; the decision to add the office of Professor of the History of Art to the list of honorary members, with warm approval for the name of
Sir Kenneth Clark in connection with the appointment, 16 July 1968; and acknowledgment of the resignation of
Gilbert Spencer, over his allegation that his picture entitled ‘Mrs Christopher Gardner’, which had been in the summer exhibition of 1962, could not be found when he came to collect it in 1968, “five years after the Royal Academy’s responsibilities for it had ceased”, 29 October 1968.