 | Great Britain - Law - 1878 - 568 pages
...twenty-sixth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter twenty-two, and intituled " An Act 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Great Britain - 1862 - 752 pages
...G. 2.c.22. • of the Reign of King George the Second, Chapter Twenty-two, and 5 intituled " An Act 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... | |
 | Great Britain - Session laws - 1948 - 1250 pages
...3. c. 77. Title. An Act for the Amendment of the Law and the better Advancement of Justice. An Act 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1905 - 878 pages
...passed through the usual stages. It received the Koyal assent on June 7, 1753. The Act thus 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... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - Social Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...pleasure in 1747 that "societies for inquiring into the productions of nature, and the im79. "An act 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... | |
 | Adair Stuart Mason - Medical - 2004 - 246 pages
...curiosities will not be purchasers.' However, six months after Sloane's death Parliament passed 'An Act for the purchase of the museum or collection of Sir Hans Sloane, Bart., and of the Harleian collection of manuscripts, and for procuring one general repository for... | |
 | 78 pages
...British Museum was founded, as you know, by an Act of Parliament in 1753 which was entitled "An Act 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 Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1906 - 812 pages
...however, until 1753, when it was definitely established by an Act of Parliament (26 Geo. II, cap. xxii), •for the purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian Collections of Manuscripts ; and for providing one General Repository for the better reception and... | |
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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... 
