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Ref NoDF/ADM/1011/3
Alt Ref NoDF1011/3
TitlePrinted ephemera of the Natural History Museum
DescriptionContains (taken from index):

Absence report form
Accounts
Acknowledgements
Advertisement notices of publications (issued as insets)
Almanac
Annual report, circular letter asking Departments for
Antarctic (Discovery) Expedition, list of naturalists working out collections of, leaflet of report
Appointments
Army form, statement of pay received by civil servants attending camp as members of the Territorial Forces
Articulator's (and taxidermist's) time sheet
Assistant-Secretary's compliments
Assistants, British Museum
Assistants, Natural History Museum
Attendants, British Museum
Attendants, Natural History Museum

Bank holidays
Bible Exhibition, announcement of, and advertising leaflet
Bill, blank form of
Bill of exchange, specimen copy of
Birds, list of requiring protection (Samoa), laws protecting birds in British dominions, etc.
BLinds in Zoological Department, regulations as to use of
Booksellers, circular letter announcing publication and selling price of Trustees'publications
Boy Attendants, British Museum
Boy Attendants, Natural History Museum
British Basidiomycetes, synopsis of (advertisement)
British Fungi, guide to models of (advertisement)
British Lichens, Monograph of (advertisement)
British Museum: summary of collections in exhibition galleries; reading room regulations; loan of lantern slides etc. regulations; list of lantern slides etc.; acknowledgement receipt of application for loan of lantern slides etc.; acknowledgement receipt of lantern slides lent; photographing regulations and list of fees charged; assistants and attendants, blank forms for particulars of candidates; list of British Museum publications; attendants and boy attendants, particulars of appointments of; official guide, appointment of and timetable; photographing, particulars of appointment of; list of pictoral postcards on sale; list of collotype reproductions of drawings on sale; official guide (2 versions), regulations for private parties

Casts of fossils: list of, letter authorising Brucciani and Co to take casts
Catalogues (see publications)
Chiroptera, catalogue of (advertisement)
Circular letters, etc.: collection of blood-sucking insects in connection with tropical diseases; Antarctic (Discovery) collections; list of naturalists working out; Diplodocus carnegii, invitation to ceremony of presentation of; domesticated animals, asking for specimens (especially pedigree); annual reports, asking Heads of Departments for; extra public receipts, reminds officers as to regulations; liabilities, asking Heads of Departments for reports; outstanding accounts, asking tradesmen for; estimates, sending memoranda of provisions etc. to Departments; Officers' intended vacations, asking for; estimates, statement of Departments requirements asked for; published papers written in connection with Natural History Museum, asking Departments and individuals to send in copies; duplicate specimens, inform institutions placed on list to receive; publications, announcing selling-price of to agents; published papers, asking individuals for copies; Dr Henry Woodward, proposed presentation to; missing publications, requesting copies for General Library; publications, announcing gift of; object offered not required; entomology, sending list of books on; Boy Attendant, acknowledging receipt of application for post of; no opening for employment at Natural History Museum; noting application for employment; Brucciani and Co authorised to take casts from moulds; acknowledging receipt of letter; estimate requested for work to be done; Customs Officer requested to attend to examine cases; object offered not required; civil servants as Territorials, Treasury circular; accounts, payment of; publications, notification of parcel sent to institution; acknowledgement receipt of letter to be laid before Trustees; list of printed forms in use at Natural History Museum and index; duplicate specimens available for distribution; draft minutes to Eyre and Spottiswoode; international exchange of publications, letter sent to Stationery Office; Assistant introduced to Keeper of Department; photographing, letters of permission etc.
Civil Servants as members of the Territorial Forces: army form; statement of pay received by; Treasury circular
Collotype reproductions of drawings on sale at British Museum, list of
Colonial Office Paper, Laws Protecting Birds in British Dominions
Compliments, with the Assistant Secretary's
Confirmation of appointments of Assistants and Attendants
Conversaziones: printed list of regulations; programme of soiree of Geological Society
Correspondents, notice to that library is distinct from that of the British Museum
Current lists of natural history publications
Customs Officer, requesting attendance of to examine cases

Dates of birth of officers, assistants and others
Dates of meetings of Trustees
Days and hours of admission to Natural History Museum
Deep sea cables, preserving species found on
Diplodocus carnegii: invitation to presentation ceremony of; ticket of admission to
Directions for collecting specimens (see instructions for collectors)
Director's compliments, with the
Discovery Antarctic Expedition: list of naturalists working out collections of; advertising leaflet of report on natural history collections of
Domesticated animals: circular letter asking for assistance in obtaining species
Donation report form
Draft minutes, sending to Eyre and Spottiswoode
Drawings, collotype reproductions of, list of on sale
Duplicate specimens: informing institution, placed on list to receive; available for distribution, informing institutions on list; particulars of information to be supplied by institution applying for

Economic zoology at Natural History Museum, summary of work done
Employment: no opening for at Natural History Museum; noting application for
Entomology, sending list of text-books and works on
Estimates: circular letter sending memoranda of provisions etc. to Departments, asking for statement of requirements of Departments
Extinct animals, prospectus of a course of lectures by Professor Lankester
Extra public receipts: circular to Departments as to Treasury regulation
Eyre and Spottiswoode, sending draft minutes to

Fire alarm telephones
Fire-extinguishing appliances
Fires
Forms, printed: list of in use at Natural History Museum; index of
Fossils: list of casts and moulds; letter authorising Brucciani and Co

General Library: monthly report of work done in; arrangement and classmarks of work in; circular letter asking for missing publications to be sent
General Meetings of Trustees of British Museum (see Trustees)
Geology, Swiney Lectures on (see Swiney)
Guides at British Museum and Natural History Museum (see Official Guides)
Guide-books, Natural History Museum: list of natural history guide-books; monthly receipts from sale of; messenger's monthly return of sale of guide-books; number of guide-books sold; list of guide-books on sale at Natural History Museum
Guide-books, British Museum: list of guide-books on sale at British Museum

Hours (and days) of admission to Natural History Museum
'House' telephones (see telephones)

Incidental account form (Messenger's)
Index to printed forms in use at Natural History Museum
Institutions receiving Trustees' natural history publications, list of
Instructions for Collectors: small mammal skins; for preserving specimens found on deep-sea cables
Invitations: invitation card to British Ornithologists' Union New Guinea Expedition show of moving pictures; invitation letter to exhibition of birds and mammals from New Guinea
Invoices: for accounts outstanding against Trustees; for publications supplied to Museum agents; for publications sent to Wesley and Son; for publications supplied by Trustees

Jamaica, Monograph of Orchids of (advertisement)

Keepership of Zoology, Natural History Museum, conditions of appointment

Labourer, Natural History Museum, informing person of his appointment
Lankester, Professor Ray, course of lecturers by, on extinct animals
Lantern slides: list of lantern slides of objects in British Museum; regulations for loan of lantern slides from British Museum; forms acknowledging receipt of application for, and lantern slides lent
Lavatories, Natural History Museum
Lectures: Swiney Lectures on Geology (see Swiney Lectures)
Letters, circular (see Circular Letters)
Letters of thanks (see Thanks, Letters of)
Liabilities: circular letter to Departments asking for report
Library: notice to correspondents that Natural History Museum library is distinct from that of the British Museum
Libraries, Free Public: list of receiving Trustees' natural history publications
Lichens, British, monograph of (advertisement)

Medical report on person retiring from civil service before ago of 60, form
Memorandum forms: number of visitors and specimens received, Department of Zoology; requesting return of proof to Director; no meeting of Standing Committee; requesting review copy of journal; increase of salary forms; 'referred to' memoranda slip; large and small headed memoranda slips; regulated increase in salary; query and reply memoranda slip; query and reply and address of Museum memoranda slip; memoranda slip with address of Museum
Messenger's incidental account form
Minutes (draft), sending to Eyre and Spottiswoode
Mosquitos, monograph of (advertisement)
Mushrooms, guide to (advertisement)
Mycetozoa, monograph of (advertisement)

Naturalists working out 'Discovery' Antarctic collections, list of
New Guinea Expedition: invitation card to cinematograph show; invitation letter to exhibition of specimens
Night patrol duty payment form
Notices: precautions when fires are used; library of Natural History Museum distinct from British Museum; prepayment of postage etc.

Object offered to Natural History Museum not required
Officers, Natural History Museum: dates of birth of; asking for statement as to intended vacations
Official Guide, British Museum: notice of appointment of and time-table; regulations for private parties
Official guide, Natural History Museum: weekly programme and timetable
Okapi, monograph of (advertisement)
Orchids of Jamaica, monograph of (advertisement)
Overtime sheets

Photographing, British Museum and Natural History Museum
Postage, prepayment of
Postcards: acknowledging receipt of letter etc.; pictoral, list of on sale at British Museum
Printed forms: list of; index to
Proofs: requesting return of to Director
Publications: list of natural history publications; list of current publications; list of British Museum publications; lists of casts of fossils; list of institutions and Free Public Libraries receiving Natural History Museum publications; requesting return of proof of to Director; monograph of blood-sucking flies, circular letter as to; list of naturalists working out 'Discovery' collections; announcing publication rolling-price of natural history work; requesting review copy of journal; British seed plants and ferns (advertisement); 'Discovery' report (advertisement); monograph of mosquitoes (advertisement); monograph of tse-tse flies (advertisement); invoice for publications supplied to agents; circular letter, missing publications to be sent to General Library; list of works on entomology and covering letter; parcel receipt form; synopsis of British Basidiomycetes (advertisement); models of British fungi and British Mycetozoa (advertisement); invoice to Wesley and Son of publications sent; notification of parcel of forwarded to institution; list of guide-books on sale at Natural History Museum; guide to mushrooms and fungi (advertisement); receipt-form for publications presented; monograph of Okapi (advertisement); monograph of orchids of Jamaica (advertisement); invoice of amount due for publications supplied; international exchange of, letter to Stationery Office; duplicate publications, form of application; fresh-water fishes of Africa (advertisement); handbook of tse-tse flies (advertisement); monograph of British lichens (advertisement); Bible Exhibition guide (advertisement); monograph of Mycetozoa (advertisement); catalogue of Chiroptera (advertisement); 'Discovery' report (advertisement)
Published papers: circular letters to Officers of Departments and individuals
Purchase report form

Reading Room (British Museum) regulations
Receipts
'Referred to' memorandum slip
Requisitions from departments, form of
Review of Natural History Museum publications, requesting copy of journal

Salaries: increase of, memoranda to Departments for report to Trustees; receipt-form
Standing Committee (see Trustees)
Stationery Office: circular letter from respecting waste paper; letter respecting international exchange of publications
Students, British Museum: reading room regulations
Students, Natural History Museum: regulations and hours of opening; permission to paint granted; permission to study granted; painting ticket; application form; ticket will be granted on receipt of application etc.; notice to Department to issue ticket
Subsistence allowance and travelling expenses: forms for Officers' and Attendants' use
Summons cards for Trustees' Meetings (see Trustees)
Sunday Duty, extra duty sheet
Superannuation: medical report on person retiring before the age of 60; The Superannuation Act 1909; application form for superannuation allowance
Swiney Lectures on Geology: conditions of appointment of lecturer; course bills and syllabuses

Taxidermists: regulations for the Taxidermists' Room; time-sheet
Telephones, British Museum: list of stations
Telephones, Natural History Museum: list of stations; instructions for working internal telephones; small form for instruments; position of telephonic fire alarms; telephone number of Natural History Museum
Territorial Forces: statement of pay received by civil service members of; Treasury circular regarding civil service members of
Tickets of Admission etc.: to the presentation ceremony of Diplodocus carnegii; painting ticket
Timesheets
Travelling expenses and allowances: forms for claiming
Treasury circulars: civil service members of Territorial Forces
Tropical diseases and blood-sucking insects (see blood-sucking insects)
Trustees of British Museum: dates of meetings of; no meeting of Standing Committee memoranda form; sub-committees summons card; acknowledgement receipt of communication to be laid before
Tse-tse flies: monograph of (advertisement); handbook of (advertisement)

Vacations: circular to Officers asking for statement of intended
Visitors: monthly return of to; number of bank holiday visitors

Wages (weekly), receipt form
Waste paper, circular letter from Stationery Office
Wesley, William and Son, invoice of publications sent to
Whales, list and key plan of British
Woodward, Dr Henry, circular letter re proposed presentation to
Workmen's weekly time-sheet

Zoology, Department of, weekly report form to Director of number of visitors to
Zoology, Keepership of, conditions of appointment
Date1904-1912
AccessStatusOpen
Held ByNHM Archives
LevelFile
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