 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...collection. After his death, Parliament fulfilled the intentions of the legacy by passing an act " for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and for procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | Johann Beckmann - Discoveries in science - 1846 - 578 pages
...comprised in his collection. Parliament fulfilled the terms of the legacy, and in 1753 an act was passed "for the purchase of the museum or collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, and of the Harleian collection of MSS., and for procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1891 - 672 pages
...of Parliament made in the •renty-sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, Intitled an Act for the Purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Coléction of Manuscripts, and for providing one general bepoeitory for the better reception and more... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...collection. After his death, Parliament fulfilled the intentions of the legacy by passing an act " for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and for procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - 1851 - 432 pages
...less than it was said to have cost him. The offer was at once accepted, and an Act passed in 1753, "for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1853 - 386 pages
...less than it was said to have cost him. The offer was at once accepted, and an Act passed in 1753, "for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | Richard Sims - Libraries - 1854 - 462 pages
...Sloane died on the llth of January, 1753, and in the month of June of the same year an Act was passed, " 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... | |
 | William Jardine - Pachydermata - 1856 - 380 pages
...that Parliament immediately closed with the offer; and, in 1753, an act was passed, entitled, " An Act for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. and of the Harleian collection of MSS. and for procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | Peter Cunningham - London (England) - 1856 - 382 pages
...less than it was said to have cost him. The offer was at once accepted, and an Act passed in 1753, "for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian Collection of MSS., and procuring one general repository for the better... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English literature - 1858 - 338 pages
...2s. 6d. Acts of Parliament, Statutes and Rules relating to the British Museum. 1768. 8vo. Act of 26 Geo. II. for the Purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Ëloane, and of the Harleian Collection of MSS. and for providing of one general Repository for the... | |
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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... 
