A General Guide to the British Museum (Natural History), London: With Plans and Views of the BuildingW. Clowes and Sons, Limited, 1893 - 78 pages |
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18 coloured Plates allied animals arranged Assistant Keeper Assistants belong Bird Gallery bones botanical British Museum BRITISH MUSEUM NATURAL building Carnivora Catalogue Central Hall centre Cetacea characters Cichlomorphae Collection of Minerals complete Coral CROMWELL ROAD Crustacea Cryptogams Department of Geology devoted Dicotyledons division east Echinodermata Echinoderms eggs entrance Exhibition Galleries external extinct feet Fossil Fungi G. A. Boulenger gallery containing Geological Department Geology and Palæontology Glyptodon Gymnosperms Herbarium insects J. E. Gray Mammalia mammals Meteorites Mineral Gallery models modifications Mollusca Monocotyledons MUSEUM NATURAL HISTORY nests occupied P. L. Sclater Pavilion portion precious stones present preserved in spirit Price sixpence principal R. B. Sharpe remains Reptiles sections showing shown Sirenia skeleton skulls South species specimens illustrating staircase Star-fish Galleries stem structure stuffed specimens systematic table-cases teeth Thallophytes tion Trustees Ungulata variety various visitor wall-cases Whales wing Woodcuts Zoology
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Page 8 - The valuable collection of manuscripts formed by Sir Eobert Cotton at the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth centuries...
Page 76 - An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the Meteorites represented in the Collection.
Page 7 - His collection, which at the time of his death in 1753 was contained in his residence, the Manor House, Chelsea, consisted of " books, drawings, manuscripts, prints, medals, and coins, ancient and modern antiquities, seals, cameos and intaglios, precious stones, agates, jaspers, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, mathematical instruments, pictures, and other things...
Page 77 - Librarian, specifying their profession or business, their place of abode, and, if required, the purpose for which they seek admission. Every such application must be made two days at least before admission is required, and must be accompanied by a written recommendation from a householder (whose address can be identified from the ordinary sources of reference...
Page 7 - for the purchase of the Museum, or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts ; and for providing one General Repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections ; and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto.
Page 8 - Collection may be preserved and maintained, not only for the inspection and entertainment of the learned and curious, but for the general use and benefit of the publick,' Parliament covenanted to pay for it the sum of 20,000/.
Page 7 - An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said Collection, and of the Cottonian Library, and of the additions thereto.
Page 7 - Sir Hans Sloane, an eminent physician in London, was for sir Hans sixteen years President of the Royal College of Physicians, Sloanei and in 1727 succeeded Sir Isaac Newton in the Presidential Chair of the Royal Society. He was throughout his long life a diligent and miscellaneous collector, having, as stated in the Preamble of the Act of Incorporation of the Museum, " through the course of many years, with great labour and expense, gathered together whatever could be procured, either in our own...
Page 26 - The alcoves round the hall are devoted to the Introductory or Elementary Morphological Collection (still incomplete) , 'designed to teach the most important points in the structure of the principal types of animal and plant life, and the terms used in describing them*.
Page 20 - ... age, sex, season, or locality ; for fixing the limits of geographical distribution, or determining the range in geological time, must be not only exceedingly numerous (so numerous, indeed, that it is almost impossible to put a limit on what may be required for such purposes), but they must also be kept under such conditions as to admit of ready and close examination and comparison.