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DF - Natural History Museum Archives

Ref No	DF/MIN
Alt Ref No	DF MIN
Title	Mineralogy
Description	DF1 Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence DF2 Registers of Mineralogy Departmental and Other Correspondence DF3 Meteorite Section Correspondence DF4 Mineralogy Reports to Trustees and Other Official Documents DF5 Authorisations from Trustees Meetings DF6 Keeper of Mineralogy's Staff Files DF7 Keeper of Mineralogy's Subject Files DF8 [number not in use] DF9 Mineralogy Publications Correspondence and Artwork DF10 Mineralogy (including Meteorites) Collection Notes, Reports and Correspondence DF11 Reports and Correspondence on Collecting Trips and Visits DF12 Mineral Gallery and Exhibits DF13 Keeper of Mineralogy's Accommodation Files DF14 Mineral Library, Correspondence and Papers DF15 Keeper of Mineralogy's Internal Correspondence DF16 Mineralogy Annual Reports of Progress DF17 [number not in use] DF18 Keeper of Mineralogy's Papers on Staff and Staffing DF19 Mineralogy Laboratory Notebooks and Registers of Apparatus DF20 Scientific Staff: Correspondence and Papers DF21 Mineralogy Invoices and Accounts DF23 Mineralogy Departmental Visitors Books DF24 Mineralogy Pass Books DF25 Mineralogy Parcel Books DF26 Mineralogy Requisition Books DF27 Mineralogy Laboratory Order Books DF28 [number not in use] DF29 Outgoing Mineralogy Donations Books DF31 Specimen Loan Books DF32 Mineralogy Accession Registers DF33 Mineralogy Department Photograph Collection
Date	1756-2001
AccessStatus	Open
Held By	NHM Archives
Level	Fonds
AdminHistory	The Department of Mineralogy has its origins in the Department of Natural and Artificial Productions which was set up at the Foundation of the British Museum in 1756. In 1806 it was renamed the Department of Natural History and Modern Curiosities and was under the keepership of George Shaw (1751-1813) and later Carl Dietrich Eberhardt Konig (1774-1851) most of the records from this period remain in the archives of the British Museum, though there are a number of early letters included in DF1. In 1837 the Department was divided into three branches, of which Mineralogy and Geology was one, and in 1856 the branch became a Department in its own right, almost immediately being divided into the two departments of Geology and Mineralogy. The first Keeper of Mineralogy as a separate entity from Geology was Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne. He was succeeded by Lazarus Fletcher in 1880, who thus had the task of supervising the move from Bloomsbury to South Kensington. The Department of Mineralogy was subsumed into the Department of Earth Sciences as part of the restructure of Science by the Director of Science in 2012. In 2022 the Department of Life Sciences and Department of Earth Sciences were dissolved. Within the restructure, curation of scientific collections sits within 'Collections' under the Executive Director of Science. See NHM Orgganisation Structure: Updated July 2022. KEEPERS OF MINERALOGY Carl Dietrich Eberhard Konig 1813-1851 George Robert Waterhouse 1851-1857 Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne 1857-1880 Lazarus Fletcher (Sir) 1880-1909 George Thurland Prior 1901-1927 Leonard James Spencer 1927-1935 George Frederick Herbert Smith 1935-1937 Walter Campbell Smith 1937-1952 Frederick Allan Bannister 1952-1953 Gordon Frank Claringbull 1953-1968 Alfred Allinson Moss 1968-1974 Arthur Clive Bishop 1975-1989 Paul Henderson 1989-1995 Robert Frederick Symes 1995-1996 Andrew James Fleet 1996-2012

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