| Description | Details that: as Museum was government department, no control over sending printed material overseas, that staff were vocalising their concern that it was taking so long for Museum to organise their war work, regarding the reopening of the Museum in 1940 - noone should be without a gas mask, no unaccompanied children under 12, in 1940 the Ministry of Health to take over 2 floors of new Entomology block, in 1940 the setting up of vegetable gardens/allotments, in 1940 the admitting of Her Majesty's Forces to the Museum, even though it was closed to the public, on conducted tours, a 1939 submission from the Keeper of Mineralogy regarding areas of research which would be most useful to the war effort - collection of information on mineral resources in foreign countries, chemical analysis, optical work.
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