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ADM - Central Administration

Expand 1000 - Director's Office: Reports and Letters

1000 - Director's Office: Reports and Letters

Expand 1001 - Director's Office: the Museum Secretary's Outgoing Letters

1001 - Director's Office: the Museum Secretary's Outgoing Letters

Expand 1002 - Director's Office: Numerical Registers of Incoming Letters

1002 - Director's Office: Numerical Registers of Incoming Letters

Expand 1003 - Director's Office: Alphabetical Registers of Incoming Letters

1003 - Director's Office: Alphabetical Registers of Incoming Letters

Collapse 1004 - Director's Office: Case and Policy Files

1004 - Director's Office: Case and Policy Files

1 - Abominable snowman (yeti); newscuttings and correspondence

2 - Accessions policy

3 - Accommodation, general

4 - Accommodation for serologist; planning reports and correspondence

5 - Acton, Gorst Road store: security

6 - Acton, Gorst Road store: general

7 - Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

8 - Agricultural Research Council

10 - Adkin, G T: collection of Lepidoptera from France

11 - Admiralty: general

12 - Admiralty: dredging for specimens

13 - Admission fees: proposals and correspondence. [Entrance charges]

14 - Advertisements for Museum posts

15 - Advisory Committee to the Museum: reports and correspondence with Sir Graham Kerr

16 - Advisory Committee for Science and Technology Information (ACSTI)

17 - Advisory work

18 - Air Ministry: bombing practice requests, and correspondence with the Meteorological Office

19 - Government of Alberta: correspondence concerning purchase of a cougar skin

20 - Aldabra subfile, Seychelles

21 - Scientific investigations on Aldabra: reports, itineraries and reprints relating to the Royal Society expedition (1967-1968)

22 - Zoological Museum, Amsterdam

23 - Animal Importation Act: reports concerning the restriction of animal importation

24 - Annual returns

25 - Anonymous correspondence

26 - Sub-Department of Anthropology

27 - Anti-locust Research Centre

28 - Apparatus and equipment: correspondence and reports concerning the Museum's needs

29 - Appointments on other research councils

30 - Assheton Report on Civil Service training

31 - Association of Special Libraries and Information Bureaux

32 - 'Atlas of Evolution' by Sir Gavin de Beer

33 - Australian Broadcasting Commission: a programme on Captain James Cook

34 - Australian Museum

35 - Automatic data processing

36 - Backgate and northern boundary of the Museum site.

37 - Baker, Edward C Stuart: collection of cuckoo eggs

38 - E G Baker Fund for the Department of Botany

39 - D A Bannerman, ornithologist

40 - Bethnal Green Museum, London

41 - Proposed removal of the bird collections from London to Tring

42 - Bird Exploration Fund: letters, wills and reports

43 - Bird gallery and pavilion

44 - C G Bird Memorial Fund

45 - Birmingham University: transfer of cryptogamic collections to the Museum

46 - Sir Joseph Banks: correspondence on a cabinet designed by Robert Adam for Banks

47 - Banksian Library: correspondence on its transfer from Bloomsbury to South Kensington

48 - Bequests: general

49 - Bequests: W Archibald insect collection

50 - Bequests: E B Ashby insect collection

51 - Bequests: F N Ashcroft, mineral collection

52 - Bequests: E J Bedford collection of photographs of orchids

53 - Bequests: A Bennett collection of British pondweeds

54 - Bequests: E Elaine collection of African ungulates, removal from Bath to Tring

55 - Bequests: E T Browne collection of British and foreign medusae

56 - Bequests: E Brunetti collection of Diptera and other insects

57 - Bequests: Miss E Busk collection of British mosses, books and microscope slides

58 - Bequests: M Cameron Coleoptera (Staphylinidae) collection, with associated files

59 - Bequests: A G Campbell's Javan rhinoceros head

60 - Bequests: Miss E B Carey collection of birds and reptiles

61 - Bequests: Miss E M Carnegy's takin horns from Assam, India

62 - Bequests: G C Champion Coleoptera and Heteroptera collection

63 - Bequests: W M Christy collection of Lepidoptera

64 - Bequests: B Preston Clark Lepidoptera collection

65 - Bequests: Miss B O Corfe's stuffed birds and botanical drawings

66 - Bequests: Captain J C Crowley's lantern slides of birds and eggs

67 - Bequests: Mrs E E Cuthell's various stuffed specimens

68 - Bequests: C M Dammers collection of insects and insect paintings

69 - Bequests: J Dayrm Coleoptera collection

70 - Bequests: A Dendy Porifera collection

71 - Bequests: Lieutenant Colonel F C Fraser's insects, paintings and reptile models

72 - Bequests: Mrs W M L Frick's collection of watercolours and etchings by Maurice and E J Detmold

73 - Bequests: C S Garnett's herbarium

74 - Bequests: Sir W E Garstin's paintings of mammals by W Kuhnert

75 - Bequests: H H Godwin-Austen's land and freshwater Mollusca from India

76 - Bequests: D Gunn's legacy of £250

77 - Bequests: G L R Hancock collection of British Ichneumonidae (Diptera)

78 - Bequests: Edward Heron-Allen collection of Foraminifera, his library and an amethyst

79 - Bequests: Reverend A B Hutton's pine martens

80 - Bequests: T H E Jackson collection of Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera) from Kenya

81 - Bequests: H S Job's diatoms, books etc

82 - Bequests: J J Joicey collection of Lepidoptera

83 - Bequests: J Levick collection of Lepidoptera

84 - Bequests: C St G R Littledale collection of big game trophies (Mammalia)

85 - Bequests: A Liversidge collection of minerals and meteorites from Australia

86 - Bequests: G E Lodge sketch books, data books and specimens

87 - Bequests: V W McAndrew collection of shells (Mollusca)

88 - Bequests: S N Masterman collections of birds eggs, minerals and other specimens

89 - Bequests: E Meyrick collection of Lepidoptera

90 - Bequests: Sir Roderick Impey Murchison' aventurine vase and diamond snuff box

91 - Bequests: M R O Thomas' zoological specimens (Mammalia)

92 - Bequests: F D Ommaney's portrait of Sir Richard Owen by W H Pickersgill

93 - Bequests: F N Pierce collection of Lepidoptera genitalia

94 - Bequests: Sir H R Rankin's records of rare sheep and cattle breeds

95 - Bequests: Marguerite Doe Ravenscroft collection of African books

96 - Bequests: G Rigg collection of minerals, ores and rocks

97 - Bequests: Mrs Violet Louise Rodwell's Indian elephant tooth

98 - Bequests: M E Rundle collection of flower paintings of South India

99 - Bequests: Sir Arthur Russell collection of British minerals

100 - Bequests: W G Sheldon collection of British moths and exotic butterflies (Lepidoptera), in a mahogany cabinet

101 - Bequests: M A Smith collection of books on herpetology

102 - Bequests: A G Soika collection of wasps (Hymenoptera)

103 - Bequests: V G L van Someren collection of the insects of East Africa

104 - Bequests: H Stevens' Indian birds' nests and eggs

105 - Bequests: J R le B Tomlin's books on Mollusca

106 - Bequests: R E Turner collection of Hymenoptera from North Africa

107 - Bequests: H E Walton collection of fossils from the Barton Clay

108 - Bequests: S H Warren geological collection

109 - Bequests: F G Whittle collection of British insects in six mahogany cabinets

110 - Bequests: A E Wileman collection of Lepidoptera from Japan and the Philippines

111 - Bequests: Sir W J F Williamson collection of bird skins and eggs

112 - Bequests: A F R Wollaston collection of ethnography from New Guinea, transferred to the British Museum

Expand 113 - Bequests: minor bequests

113 - Bequests: minor bequests

114 - New acquisitions display, organised by the Exhibition Section

115 - Special donations

116 - Department of Botany and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

117 - The Board Room

118 - Board of Trade: papers concerning exhibition cases and models

119 - Board of Trade

120 - Blood donor scheme, involvement of Museum staff

121 - Blind visitors and visitor parties

122 - D S Blacklock

123 - Botanical Gardens at Bogor, Java

124 - Bookbinding

125 - Museum shop

126 - Botanical Society of the British Isles

127 - Botanical surveys

128 - Department of Botany, Diatom Section

129 - Department of Botany, office

130 - British Association for the Advancement of Science

131 - British Council, concerning visitors from overseas

132 - British Deer Society

133 - British Ornithologists Union

134 - British Trade Alphabet, concerning dodo reconstruction

135 - Broadcasting

136 - Broadcasting policy

137 - Brussels Museum

138 - British Museum Act; correspondence, reports and Parliamentary bills

139 - British Museum Bill: constitution

140 - British Museum Bill: transfer of property and Separation Committee

141 - The British Museum

142 - British Museum (Natural History): papers and reports on

143 - Building: East Wing for Department of Palaeontology: press conference reports, review and photographs

144 - Building: Entomology Block

145 - Building: Science Museum, including transfer of iron huts; Entomology Block, final section

146 - Building: mammal collection and Exhibition Section

147 - Building: North Block

148 - Building: accommodation for Department of Mineralogy

149 - Building: North Block, Northeast Tower and East Wing

150 - Building: North Block extension for the Director / Secretary's flat

151 - Building: temporary accommodation for modelling and taxidermists

152 - Building: accommodation for the Sub-Department of Anthropology

153 - Building: East Wing

154 - Building: Department of Botany, East Wing greenhouse

155 - Building: East Wing, Department of Palaeontology

156 - Building: Institute of Geological Sciences theatre and link block addition

157 - Building: new buildings

158 - Building: library requirements in Northeast Tower

159 - Building: Exhibition Section's requirements in Northeast Tower

160 - Building: Photographic Section's requirements in Northeast Tower

161 - Building: rear entrance to Museum

162 - Building: temporary accommodation for Department of Zoology in the East Wing

163 - Building: war rooms and stereoscan

164 - Building: West Wing

165 - Building: general

166 - Disposal of cabinets

167 - Indian Museum, Calcutta

168 - Cambridge Instrument Company

169 - Cambridge University data storage and retrieval project

170 - Department of Agriculture, Canada

172 - Car parking

173 - National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

174 - British Antarctic Survey: correspondence on the Falkland Island Dependencies

175 - Central Hall: publications sales (shop) and cloakroom

176 - Central and North halls: replanning

177 - Central Office of Information

178 - Proposed extension to the central workshop

179 - Centre for Administrative Studies

181 - Challenger Society

182 - Chelsea Physic Garden, greenhouse

183 - Children's Centre: correspondence, newscuttings and reports

184 - Government of Chile

185 - Chillingham cattle

186 - Chubbs Ltd, locksmiths

187 - City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham

188 - Civil Service Lifeboat Fund

189 - Civil Defence, including training and instruction manuals

190 - J F Gates Clarke

191 - Cleaning Advisory Unit

192 - Cleaning: the Museum

193 - Cleaning: Zoological Museum, Tring

194 - Clearing Office (enemy debts)

196 - Coelacanth: correspondence and newscuttings

197 - Coimbra University, Portugal

198 - Colonial Biological Survey

199 - Colonial fisheries

200 - Colonial Office

201 - Colonial universities

202 - Commissions and committees

203 - Commonwealth Institute of Entomology

204 - Compensation claims

205 - Complaints

206 - Collections: minor collections

207 - Collections: Herbert J Adams' Lepidoptera

208 - Collections: Edwin L Arnold's birds' eggs

209 - Collections: Richard S Bagnall's 15,000 specimens of Thysanoptera

210 - Collections: Eustace R Bankes' Lepidoptera

211 - Collections: Thomas Broun's New Zealand Coleoptera

212 - Collections: Edgar R Chance's bird eggs

213 - Collections: Cockayne-Kettlewell Lepidoptera

214 - Collections: Frank Corner's collection of early human skulls (including Galley Hill Skull) and remains

215 - Collections: Horace St J K Donisthorpe' British insects

216 - Collections: Arthur Earland's scientific papers

217 - Collections: Hans Fruhstorfer's Swiss butterflies and cabinets

218 - Collections: Albert V Hedges' British Lepidoptera

219 - Collections: Karl Jordan's 21,420 specimens of Anthribae

220 - Collections: Sir Charles Lyell's Scottish geological specimens

221 - Collections: Rear Admiral Hubert Lynes' African ornithological material

222 - Collections: Robert McCormick's geological specimens from the Arctic

223 - Collections: W A Macfadyen's Jurassic invertebrate fossils

224 - Collections: Sir William Medlycott's paintings

225 - Collections: Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen's mammals and insects from the Hoggar Mountains [Algeria] and ornithological collections

226 - Collections: Ministry of Works

227 - Collections: Sir John Murray's oceanographical collection

228 - Collections: Leopold Melichar's Czechoslovakian Homoptera

229 - Collections: René Oberthur collections of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, with photographs of the Oberthur Museum

230 - Collections: William Rait-Smith's Lepidoptera

231 - Collections: Percival Reynolds' birds eggs from Tierra del Fuego [South America]

232 - Collections: J Richter' Argentinian Coleoptera

233 - Collections: Lord Rothschild

234 - Collections: N C Rothschild's Siphonapleia and accounts

235 - Collections: Sir Arthur Russell's minerals

236 - Collections: F Santschi's Hymenoptera (ants)

237 - Collections: S Gordon Smith's British Geometridae

238 - Collections: Colonel R Sparrow's Falcons' eggs

239 - Collections: James Stinton's lichens

240 - Miscellaneous collections

241 - Collections: Ernest R Sykes' 76,000 shells

242 - Collections: Lord Walsingham (Microlepidoptera and library)

243 - Collections: Brisbane C S Warren's Palaearctic Rhopalocera (Lepidoptera)

244 - Collections: Mrs Joseph I S Whitaker's Italian bird skins

245 - Collections: Lionel G O Woodhouse's Ceylonese butterflies

246 - Conchological Society

247 - Conference of Directors

248 - Congo Museum [Musee Royal du Congo Belge], Tervuren

249 - Congratulatory Addresses

250 - Congresses: General

251 - Congresses: Entomology

252 - Congresses: Geological

253 - International zoological congresses

254 - Contracts

255 - Conversazione Room

256 - Cooperation with Colonial Governments

257 - Cooperation with foreign scientists

258 - Colonel E J Corbett's films

259 - Coryndon Museum, Nairobi

260 - Council for Nature

261 - Council for Scientific Policy

262 - Covered way - Entomology Block

263 - Crown Agents

264 - Department of Botany, cryptogamic laboratory and studies

265 - Curious correspondence

266 - Curwen Press Ltd.

267 - Damage to Specimens

268 - R F Damon and Co., anthropological cast makers

269 - Darwin Centenary Exhibition

270 - Darwin Centenary - Royal Society South Pacific Expedition

271 - Deep freeze facilities

272 - Defence Medal: claimant forms etc..

273 - Degreasing Plant

274 - Demolition of war room and removal of oceanographic collection

275 - Department of Scientific and Industrial Research

276 - Lord Derby

277 - Destruction of Specimens

278 - Dermestidarium extension

279 - Destructive animals

280 - Developing and implementing ADP projects

281 - Duke of Devonshire

282 - Dispersals

283 - Disposal of surplus microscopes and other equipment

285 - National Museum of Ireland, Dublin

286 - University College Museum, Dundee

287 - East London Museum: Annual Report for 1967

288 - East Malling Research Station

289 - Group for educational services in museum

290 - Elections

291 - Electricity Supply

292 - Electron microscope, including the stereoscan 600 conversion

293 - Enquiries

294 - Entertainment

295 - Entomology block adaptations

296 - Entomology Library

297 - Department of Entomology: loss of books

298 - Entomology Department: security screen

299 - Entomology storage at Cricklewood

300 - Emergency evacuation (Departmental schemes)

301 - Emergency houses - Aros House

302 - Emergency houses - Bilbury Court

303 - Emergency houses - Bolton Hall

304 - Emergency houses - Brockle Hirst

305 - Emergency houses - Miscellaneous

306 - Emergency - safeguarding of collections: BM(NH) and Tring

307 - Emergency - damage due to enemy action

308 - Emergency - War: draft instructions drawn up by departments for specimen evacuation.

309 - Emergency houses: Broughton Castle

310 - Emergency houses: Bruern Abbey

311 - Emergency houses: Chatsworth House

312 - Emergency houses: Derby Hall

313 - Emergency houses: Drumlanrig Castle

314 - Emergency houses: Easton Neston

315 - Emergency houses: Hill Court

316 - Emergency houses: How Caple

317 - Emergency houses: Keldy Castle

318 - Emergency houses: Kiftsgate Court

319 - Emergency houses: Lochinch Castle

320 - Emergency houses: Longleat House

321 - Emergency houses: Malham Tarn

322 - Emergency houses: Newby Hall

323 - Emergency houses: Penshurst Place

324 - Emergency houses: Raby Castle

325 - Emergency houses: Shutford Manor

326 - Ministry of Works

327 - Ministry of Public Buildings and Works: general correspondence

328 - Ministry of Public Buildings and Works: safety, precautions and accidents. Instructions booklet

329 - Ministry of Public Buildings and Works: Temporary file

330 - Ministry of Public Buildings and Works: works meetings

331 - Ministry of Public Buildings and Works: Estimates

332 - Estimates: works

333 - Estate Duty Office

334 - Evolution

335 - Exchanges and duplicates: Botany

336 - Exchanges and duplicates: Entomology

337 - Exchequer and audit

338 - Experiments on living animals

339 - Extended hours of opening

340 - Extra-official activities

341 - Exchanges and duplicates: disposal of duplicate specimens

342 - Exchanges and duplicates: General

343 - Exchanges and duplicates: Entomology

344 - Exchanges and duplicates: Geology

345 - Exchanges and duplicates: Library

346 - Exchanges and duplicates: Mineralogy

347 - Exchanges and duplicates: Palaeontology

348 - Exchanges and duplicates: Mineralogy

349 - Exchanges and duplicates: Mineralogy

350 - Exchanges and duplicates: Zoology

351 - Expeditions: General

352 - Expeditions: South Africa (Entomology)

353 - Expeditions: African Mammals

354 - Expeditions: Algeria

355 - Expeditions: Australian bird expedition

356 - Expeditions: Joint Services Expedition to West Central Australia

357 - Expeditions: Australian (Hall) Expedition

358 - Expeditions: Northwest Australia

359 - Expeditions: British Schools Exploring Society

360 - Expeditions: Miss L E Cheesman

361 - Expeditions: Galapagos Islands

362 - Expeditions: Gunong Benom, Malaya

363 - Expeditions: India, Bryological Expedition

364 - Expeditions: Kenya / Ethiopia Boundary Survey

365 - Expeditions: Kurdistan, Turkey

366 - Expeditions: "Manihine" [Red Sea]

367 - Expeditions: John Murray Expedition to the western Indian Ocean

368 - Expeditions: Musandam (Oman)

369 - Expeditions: botanical to Nepal

370 - Expeditions: East Nepal 1961

371 - Expeditions: New Guinea

372 - Expeditions: Joint Museum Expedition to New Guinea 1970

373 - Expeditions: North Borneo 1956 (Birds)

374 - Expeditions: Royal Society Expedition to North Borneo

375 - Expeditions: Oxford University

376 - Expeditions: W J Potter to New Guinea

377 - Expeditions: Rennell Island

378 - Expeditions: Rhodesia [now Zimbabwe] and Tanganyika

379 - Expeditions: L Rutter's expedition to Peru

380 - Expeditions: Ruwenzori Mountains [Uganda]

381 - Expeditions: Shackleton-Rowett expedition

382 - Expeditions: Solomon Islands

383 - Expeditions: South Pacific

384 - Expeditions: J D A Stainton's trip to Nepal

385 - Expeditions: Wilfred Thesiger's Expedition to Abyssinia, Afghanistan and Aden

386 - Expeditions: C Court Treatt's expedition from Cairo to The Cape

387 - Expeditions: World Centre of Explorations

388 - Expeditions: Dr C Christy's travels in East Africa, including Tanganyika and Lake Nyassa [Tanzania]

389 - Expeditions: F W H Migeod, dinosaur expedition to East Africa, accounts and cheque counterfoils

390 - Expeditions: Ruwenzori Mountains (Uganda); Dr F W Edwards (Entomologist) and G Taylor ( Botanist)

391 - Expeditions: British Museum Expedition to East Africa

392 - Expeditions: Captain G H Wilkins' expeditions to Australia and the Arctic

393 - Exhibition galleries

394 - Exhibitions, general: Exhibition Section

395 - Exhibitions: procedures

396 - Exhibitions: staff matters

397 - Exhibitions: programme of work

398 - Exhibitions: reorganisation

399 - Exhibitions: steering Committee

400 - Extension to public galleries

401 - Exhibitions: Botany Gallery.

402 - Exhibitions: Children's Centre

403 - Exhibitions: Fossil Mammal Gallery

404 - Exhibitions: Insect Gallery

405 - Exhibitions: Mineral Gallery

406 - Exhibitions: Photo Unit, Photographic Staff Matters: Pay Scales, Job Descriptions, Records in Photo Unit Etc.

407 - Exhibition Section: Photographic Studio Matters, Regulations and Prices

408 - Special Exhibitions

409 - Facilities for Foreign Expeditions

410 - Field Training for Palaeontologists in Shropshire

411 - Films: Screenings for Museum Staff

412 - Film Strips: Correspondence on Permission to Use and Suggestions for Production.

413 - Fine Art Trade Guild

414 - Fire Protection

415 - Flying of Flags on the Museum

416 - Flooding : East Tower Stairs and Elsewhere.

417 - Flooding: War Room

418 - Flora Zambesiaca: Correspondence on Collaboration Between Governments.

419 - Flowers in History: photographs taken for use in the book.

420 - Foreign Office

421 - Foreign Office: Presentation to the Sultan of Turkey.

422 - George Forrest: correspondence relating to his natural history collections from Yunnan, China

423 - Freightage: Correspondence on Complaints, Charges, New Arrangements Etc.

424 - Freshwater Biological Association

425 - Fuel Economy

426 - Borings in Funafuti, Bikini Atoll

427 - Future Development of the Museum

428 - Geological Museum and Geological Survey

429 - Geological Survey of Egypt

430 - Geological Survey of India

431 - Ghent Exhibition (1913): tropical diseases exhibit

432 - Godman Exploration Fund

433 - Godman Memorial in Central Hall

434 - Government chemist

435 - Gramophone records, their purchase and performance

436 - Great Barrier Reef Committee, Australia

437 - Tours by guide-lecturer

438 - Safety of hanging exhibits

439 - Heating and ventilation

440 - Herbert Whitley Trust: request to use material from 'Fossil Birds'

441 - Hiring of lecture theatre and conversazione room

442 - History of forms of appointment under British Museum Act

443 - Hooliganism, including assaults on staff

444 - Hours of opening

445 - House of Commons: correspondence with the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee

446 - Identification of specimens

447 - Identification passes for staff

448 - Imperial College of Science and Technology

449 - Imperial Institute

450 - Improvements to restaurant

451 - Indecency

452 - Index Publications: entries for the Museum in

453 - India Office

454 - Industrial Relations Bill

455 - Insect pests in the Museum: correspondence on health and safety issues

456 - Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles (Brussels)

457 - Indemnity and insurance for items lent and borrowed

458 - Expeditions, planning (field work by staff)

459 - British trans-American expedition, leader Major John Blashford-Snell

460 - Mount Cook expedition, New Zealand (1972)

461 - Nepal (Dhaulagiri) expedition (1974) (R.A.F.)

462 - Royal Geographical Society expedition to Mato Grosso (Central Brazil)

463 - Zaire (Congo) river expedition (1974) - Scientific Exploration Society, leader John Blashford-Snell

464 - Inter-departmental services.

465 - Internal requisitions: order forms (901) and correspondence.

466 - International Committee for Bird Preservation

467 - International Council for Bird Preservation: accommodation

468 - International Council for Museums

469 - International Trust for Zoological Nomenclature

470 - International Union for the Conservation of Nature

471 - Inventories of microscopes

472 - Jackson, Sir F J: big-game heads presented to Castle Museum, Norwich

473 - Japan: correspondence, including booklet showing itinerary for visit of Prince and Princess Hitachi to Britain in 1965.

474 - Junior common room

475 - Keepers' meetings: minutes

476 - Royal Borough Kensington and Chelsea: electoral registers

477 - Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

479 - Kipling's 'Jungle Books': correspondence concerning gift of manuscript

480 - Kuala Lumpur, Federated Malay States Museums

481 - Selangor Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya: correspondence on entomological collections

482 - Laboratories: maintenance, health and safety and other matters

483 - Lane, the Honorable Mrs. M. (Miriam Rothschild)

484 - Lantern slides: correspondence and catalogues of slides

485 - Larwood bequest of Verhoeff's Isopod collections

486 - Latymer School, Hammersmith: employment of pupils during summer holidays.

487 - Lavatories

488 - Learned societies

489 - Lecture hall

490 - Legal actions: claims for damages and loss of property

491 - Leicester Museum

492 - Leningrad Institute of Anthropology and Ethnology

493 - Letter heading - new style

494 - Letters of recommendation

495 - Letters of thanks

496 - Leverhulme Research Fellowship

497 - Lewes Museum

499 - Licences for plant importation, animal experimentation, and export of works of art

500 - Lifting apparatus

503 - Linnean Society of London

504 - Lisbon - Museo Bocage

505 - Loans: in

506 - Loans: regulations and suggested legislation

507 - Loans: out

508 - Loans of elephant tusks from the government of Kenya

509 - Local arrangements for printing

510 - Loch Ness Monster

511 - Locking up and patrols

513 - London Natural History Society

514 - Loss or damage to personal property

515 - Lost property

516 - Northern boundary and South Kensington site

517 - Machines and appliances

519 - Exhibitions: Mammal Gallery

520 - Marimurtra Botanical Gardens

521 - Matthai, Prof. G: collection of corals

522 - Mauritius Institute and Public Museum

523 - Melbourne Museum

524 - Members of Parliament

525 - Meteorites

526 - Mineralogical Society

527 - Mineralogical Society

528 - Microfilming

529 - Montagu, Hon I : correspondence on identification of specimens

530 - Moscow Institute and Museum of Anthropology

531 - Moscow: Museum Darwinianum

532 - Museum grounds

533 - Museums Association

534 - Museum school services

535 - Museum tours

536 - Museum vote: works and supplies vote estimate

537 - National Central Library

538 - National Maritime Museum

539 - Natural Environment Research Council

540 - Natural History Museum: general

541 - Natural History Museum: buildings

542 - Nature Conservancy

543 - Dominion of New Zealand

544 - Nichols-Both, E

545 - Nininger collection of meteorites

546 - Nuffield Foundation: correspondence on fellowships and research funding

547 - Office for scientific and technical information

548 - Office instructions

549 - Official Secrets Act

550 - Olympic Games: fundraising for the British team

551 - Open Day (26 February 1970)

552 - 'Functions of the British Museum (Natural History)': production of leaflet

553 - Organisation and Method

554 - Organisation and Method reports (one and two): covers departmental functions and procedures

555 - Osteology: new offices

556 - Osteology store: south west corridor

557 - Sir Richard Owen medals

558 - Pain, T : access to Mollusca collections

559 - Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris

560 - Parker, Dr. W. Rushton

561 - Parliamentary bills: plumage bills

562 - Parliamentary questions

563 - Payroll computer service

564 - Penguin Guide to London: Natural History Museum entry

565 - Performing Rights Society

566 - Peru: cooperation with the Museo de Historia Naturali, Lima

567 - Photo-copying service

568 - Piltdown Skull: newscuttings, press releases and correspondence relating to the skull and the site

569 - Plastic storage trays

570 - Plowden-Wardlaw, W.J.: access to the bird collection and permits for collecting birds

571 - Percy Sladen Memorial Fund

572 - Papers by the staff

573 - Political activities

574 - Portraits

576 - Post Office giro

577 - Postage meter

578 - Postal stamps

579 - Postal arrangements

580 - The Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington, Kent:

581 - Preservation of specimens

582 - Principal Probate Registry

583 - Printing room matters

584 - Private Bill proceedings

585 - Private collecting and dealing

586 - Private enterprise publications

587 - Film and slide projection work: papers on staffing and equipment

588 - Protection of Birds Acts

589 - Protection of nature

590 - Provincial museums: assistance from the Natural History Museum

591 - Public Record Office

592 - Publications: general

593 - Publicity

594 - Purchase of a mineral collection from Earth Science Imports

595 - Progress: Botany

596 - Progress: Entomology

597 - Progress: Geology

598 - Progress: Index Museum

599 - Progress: General Library

600 - Progress: Minerals

601 - Progress: Zoology

602 - Purchases: Botany

603 - Purchases: Entomology

604 - Purchases: General

605 - Purchases: Geology

606 - Purchases: General Library

607 - Purchases: Mineralogy

608 - Purchases: Zoology

609 - Purchases: grants

610 - Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

611 - Radiography: examination of staff for signs of tuberculosis

612 - Ray Society

613 - Recording: animal noises

614 - Recreation and rest rooms

615 - Redesign of entrance hall

616 - Refreshment contractor

617 - Refrigerators

618 - Registry: occasional papers

619 - Registry re-organisation

620 - Relationship with Department of Education and Science

621 - Repayment services by the Museum

622 - Triennial report to parliament on progress of the Museum, 1963-1965

623 - Requisitions

624 - Research fellowships

625 - Research fellowships abroad

626 - Research work after normal hours

627 - Restaurant storage

629 - Robbins Comittee Report: recommendation for a Minister of Arts and Sciences

630 - Rowland Ward: bequests

631 - Royal Albert Hall

632 - Royal Army Medical College

633 - Royal College of Art

634 - Royal College of Surgeons

635 - Royal Entomological Society of London

636 - Royal Fine Art Commission

637 - Royal Geographical Society

638 - Royal Horticultural Society

639 - Royal Institute of Public Administration

640 - Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst

641 - Royal Mint

642 - Royal Scottish Museum: Edinburgh

643 - Royal Society

644 - Royal Society Exhibition, Westminster Hall

645 - Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

646 - Royal Society of Health

647 - Royal Society: Taxonomy Committee

648 - St. Helena: giant tortoise (1950) and appointment of Education Officer (1952)

649 - Safe custody of material on loan

650 - Scaffolding collapse

651 - Salvage: paper, film and scrap metal

652 - Spencer Savage: correspondence on his catalogue of the Sloane Herbarium

653 - Schistosomiasis research project

654 - School Visits

655 - Science (Policy and Organisation) Bulletin, Department of Education and Science.

656 - Science Library

657 - Science Museum

658 - Scientific Expeditionary Research Association

659 - Scientific research in the Natural History Museum

660 - Scott Antarctic Fund

661 - Scrap metal: disposal of etc

662 - Sea and lake bottom deposits

663 - Seals and sealing

664 - Gilbert White of Selborne

665 - Selous Memorial

666 - Senior common room

668 - Separates

669 - Serengeti National Park, Tanganyika [Tanzania]

671 - Seychelles

672 - George Bernard Shaw: bequest to British Museum

673 - Shell Gallery

674 - Charles Davies Sherborn: correspondence on the Sherborn Fund, a candle tax stamp, and Index Animalium

676 - Short guide to the Museum

678 - Smithsonian Institution: correspondence on transit of ammunition to India

680 - Society for Promotion of Nature Reserves

681 - South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa

682 - Special lecture

683 - Spirit: correspondence on purchase of ethyl alcohol and methylated spirits for collection preservation

684 - Spirit building and spirit stores

685 - Sports club

686 - Survey of educational facilities: visit by Her Majesty's Inspectorate.

687 - Swanage dinosaur trackway

688 - Swanscombe excavation

689 - Swanscombe skull

690 - Swiney lectures in geology

691 - Staff catering

692 - Staff handbook

693 - Staff transferred to other departments

694 - Stereoscan electron microscope

695 - Stills for holding spirit

698 - Staff costing

699 - Star Carr peat bog excavations, Yorkshire

701 - Storage of private collections

Expand 702 - Stranded cetaceans - dolphins, whales

702 - Stranded cetaceans - dolphins, whales

703 - Stationery office

704 - Taxonomic work

705 - Department of Technical Co-operation

706 - Telephones

707 - Televison (BBC)

708 - Temporary huts

709 - Tennis courts

711 - Three-dimensional photographs

712 - Dr C B Ticehurst: bequest of his collection of bird skins

713 - Board of Trade

714 - Transfer of property

715 - Treasury authorities

716 - Treasury circulars

717 - C O and Dr C T Trechmann: bequests of geological specimens and books

718 - Tristan de Cunha: protection of animals, release of goats, Royal Society expedition (1961) and other topics

719 - Zoological Museum, Tring

720 - Tring Mansion and Park: Lord Rothschild's offer

721 - Zoological Museum, Tring, domestic animals

722 - Zoological Museum, Tring, new bird skin cabinets

723 - Zoological Museum, Tring, new public entrance

724 - New Ornithological wing, Tring, photographs

725 - Surrey Place, Akeman Street, Tring

726 - Akeman Street, Tring

727 - Museum cottages, 4 and 7 Park Street, Tring

728 - Zoological Museum, Tring: papers relating to land and property

729 - Library provision at the Zoological Museum, Tring

730 - Trustees of British Museum (Natural History): correspondence on membership, attendance and meetings

731 - Australian type specimens

732 - Typewriters

734 - USSR: correspondence relating to visiting scientists

735 - Uganda: correspondence on the Fulbright Research Centre, labels for specimens, and a gorilla skeleton presented to the Museum

736 - United States Public Health Service

737 - University of Chicago Press

738 - University of Malaya

739 - Ushaw College, University of Durham: a geological collection not accepted by the Museum

740 - Vacation Consultants Scheme

741 - Vacuum cleaners

742 - Arthur S Vernay: correspondence on expeditions and his rhinoceros specimens

743 - Victoria and Albert Museum

744 - Visit of Emperor Hirohito of Japan

746 - First World War

Expand 747 - Whaling and Whales

747 - Whaling and Whales

748 - Whale Hall

Expand 749 - Whales

750 - H.R.H. Edward, The Prince of Wales: correspondence on films and specimens

751 - Wall chart

752 - Portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace

753 - War Memorial (1914-1918, 1939-1945)

754 - War Office

755 - Water supply

756 - Wenner-Gren Foundation

757 - Western Australian Museum - Exchange of staff on detached duty

758 - Whitley Council

759 - Wild Plant Conservation Board

760 - Winchester City Museum

761 - Window cleaning

762 - Woods Hole Marine Laboratory

763 - World Wildlife Fund

764 - X-ray apparatus

765 - X-ray Crystallography

766 - X-ray emission spectroscopy analysis

767 - X-ray rooms safety conditions

768 - Yugoslavia

769 - Dr Elwood C Zimmerman

770 - Publications- Monograph of Archaeopteryx by Sir Gavin de Beer

771 - Publications- Agents - Wheldon and Welsley Ltd.

772 - Publications- Catalogue of Birds

773 - Publications- Insects of Samoa by P A Buxton and G H E Hopkins

774 - Publications- Monograph of Liassic Ammonites by L F Spath

775 - Publications: Rhodesian Man and associated remains

776 - Publications- Book Stall

777 - Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)

778 - Publications- Index Animalium by C D Sherborn

779 - Publications- John Murray Expedition, scientific reports

780 - Zoological Record

781 - Zoological Society of London

782 - Publications

783 - Accounts: Finance 1966/7

784 - Accounts: Overseas Geological Survey

785 - Accounts: Overseas Geological Survey

786 - Accounts: Public Accounts committee

787 - Inventory of collections

788 - Emergency: evacuation plans

789 - Whale Hall

790 - Trend Committee on organisation of the civil sevice

791 - Library Committee Minutes

792 - Library Committee Minutes

793 - Macmillan Committee on accommodation: reports from departments and Director

794 - Publications - Flora of Jamaica by Rendle et al

795 - Publications: Diptera of Patagonia and South Chile

796 - Publications - Insects of medical importance by J Smart

797 - Publications - Index of mineral species by M Hey

798 - Publications - Catalogue of fleas by G H E Hopkins and M Rothschild

799 - Publications - Catalogue of fleas by G H E Hopkins and M Rothschild

800 - Catalogue of Australian Melolonthinae by E B Britton

801 - Publications - Sir Hans Sloane by G De Beer

802 - Geological Survey and Museum accommodation

803 - The Legal Status of Meteorites (1)

804 - The Legal Status of Meteorites (2)

805 - Whitley Council : departmental minutes and correspondence

806 - Holotypes of Australian natural history specimens

807 - Accommodation: East wing foundation contract, minutes of site meetings and reports

808 - Pedestrian entrance to Exhibition Road tunnel: provision of

809 - Pedestrian entrance to Exhibition Road tunnel: meetings

810 - Admission charges

811 - Bomb threat procedures

812 - Accommodation: construction of insectary

813 - Organisations operating from the museum

814 - HM Customs

815 - 'Chang': a film of wildlife in Siam presented by Paramount Pictures in 1927

816 - Museum security

817 - National Institute of Oceanography, including papers on the Discovery huts

818 - Holotypes of Australian natural history specimens.

819 - Swiney Lectures in geology

820 - Grading of Museum Secretary post

821 - Salvage procedures in the event of fire or flood.

822 - Charges for use of the Museum by outside organisations.

823 - Role of the Museum in the study of pollution: a paper for the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution.

824 - Microfilming policy for collection registers and other papers

825 - Chelsea Physic Garden: use of facilities by the Department of Botany.

826 - Cleaning the terracotta facade of the Museum by Stoneguard Ltd.

827 - Electronic data processing and the provision of computers in the Museum.

828 - The Pain bequest of Burma gemstones

829 - Conservation and restoration of oil paintings.

830 - Advisory Board for Research Councils; includes 'Report of the Working Group on Biological Manpower'.

831 - Admission charges: newscuttings, press notices and plans.

832 - Fire alarm system.

833 - Accommodation, 'Official Quarters'.

834 - Museum Security.

835 - Advisory Board for the Research Councils (Forward Look and Building Programme)

836 - Annual Estimates

837 - New Indirect ceiling lighting in Main Hall

838 - Staffing and organisation of Office Keeper's section.

839 - Complement of staff - estimates

840 - North East Towers, occupation programme.

841 - Central Hall and North Hall - restoration of ceilings - repairs and redecoration.

842 - Remaining work on Dermisterarium.

843 - Work on Diatom section accommodation

844 - Outstanding work at Natural History Museum

845 - North block extension, minutes of architects site meetings, no. 22 - 36.

846 - Expected completion date for east wing

847 - East wing - floor loading

848 - East wing, Agenda minutes of architects site meetings from preliminary meeting on 21.4.72

849 - East wing - agenda and minutes of architects site meetings (Pinckheard and Partners).

850 - Accommodation of the Palaeontology Library in the new block (east wing)

851 - Possible use of further land at Tring for building including proposed purchase of 5 Park St

852 - Opening of new ornithology building at Tring on 21 July 1972

853 - Reorganisation of the skin collections at Tring.

854 - Purchase of cabinets for Rothschild Cockayne - Kettlewell collection of British Butterflies and Moths.

855 - Assistance to staff attending field courses which are a compulsory part of an approved course of study.

856 - Department of Education and Science inspection of graphic office posts.

857 - Public Expenditure Survey Committee - Appropriation Accounts (Department of Education and Science)

858 - The British Trans - Americas Expedition committee, conclusion of expedition - interim report.

859 - Reports on bomb threat incidents (Mrs Mitchell)

860 - Use in the UK of the services of the Commonwealth Agriculture Bureau.

861 - Suggestions for reorganisation of publications section

862 - Enquiry regarding storage space for society and use of room for meetings of society in museum

863 - Individual merit promotions of officers working in science and technology - staff in confidence.

864 - Photographic policy within the museum

865 - Tring Museum security (General)

866 - Accommodation for children in present zoology library

867 - Standing committee on Museums and Galleries - reports

868 - Heads of Departments meeting minutes

869 - Head of Departments meetings, agendas and papers

870 - East Wing, housing Palaeontology Department - fire precautions.

871 - Zoological Museum, Tring - fire precautions, with plans

872 - 67-68 Akeman Street, Tring: negotiations over a wall exposed by demolition on adjoining building, with plans

873 - Principles on assistance for degree and other courses

874 - Discovery Committee, including papers on the National Institute of Oceanography Whale Discovery Huts

875 - The Scientific Exploration Society, the Blue Mountains Expedition to Jamaica

876 - Diamond thefts, including Colenso Diamond

877 - Metropolitan Police Office: New Scotland Yard/enquiry into the theft of the Colenso Diamond

878 - Recruitment of an archivist in the general library

879 - Annual Estimates 1974-1975

880 - Annual Estimates 1978/1979

881 - Senior experimental officer posts in the Museum, including report on Museum Office

882 - Recruitment of educational technologist for New Exhibition Scheme

883 - Staff complement 1974-1975

884 - Requests to work, visit, or study in museum departments by visiting overseas scientists

885 - Visiting scientists and students, rules and conditions of work in the museum

886 - Promotion principles and procedures as agreed with the Departmental Whitley Council

887 - Museum's photocopying unit grading structure

888 - Health and safety at work, departmental areas of responsibility

889 - Transfer of entomological and botanical books from Tring to the British Library

890 - H M Customs and Excise, permission to keep and use stills without licence

891 - Revision of Staff Handbook 1973

892 - Security of books in the museum's libraries

893 - Dr. L G Higgins, potential bequest of books

894 - 41 Akeman Street, Tring general file

895 - Banking facilities and arrangements 1973-1979

896 - Department of the Environment, alterations to Photographic Unit

897 - New Exhibition Scheme, Department of the Environment and project management of phase 2

898 - Accommodation for Zoological Society of London

899 - Department of the Environment, new flood-lighting scheme 1974-1975

900 - East wing, proposal to provide access between Palaeontology Library and Mineralogy Library with paper on library security

901 - Reconstruction of the fish and reptile galleries for the Hall of Human Biology

902 - Departmental Whitley Council: signature book

903 - British Ornithologists Union Expedition to the Great Snow Mountains of Dutch New Guinea: correspondence, handmap and memoranda

904 - Crown Agents: Requests to check artwork for postage stamps

905 - Registry procedure: proceedures to be followed in the re-organisaton of the Registry

906 - Forward Look (policy objectives, allocation of resources and works and supplies services for the coming year)

907 - Staff inspection of security services - consideration of report

908 - Staff inspection of photographic unit correspondence and report

910 - Museum admission figures

911 - Conference and seminar papers on electron miscroscopy

912 - 'Particulars of a contract for bookwork printing'

913 - Incoming correspondence on ornithological subjects

914 - Transfer of ownership of South Kensington site from the Secretary of State for the Environment to the Natural History Museum - financial implications

915 - Centenary Central Event

916 - Joint Planning Committee - South Kensington Museums, minutes and agendas

917 - Personnel Management Delegation

918 - Mineralogy - general reference papers

919 - Publications: Oxford Unversity Press and museum bookshop

920 - The Godman Exploration Fund

921 - Paper for Chief Scientist

922 - Honorary research fellowships

923 - Report on the possible provision or a workplace creche

924 - May Day opening 1989/90

925 - VIP and Official visitors to the museum

926 - Geological Museum: General

927 - A Survey of Visitor attitutes to admission charges at the Natural History Museum

929 - Guides to the services offered by the Department of Central Services

930 - Report on the Trustees visit to the photographic unit, electron microscope unit, technical services group, publications section of the department of centrals services

931 - Report on museum publications, with related correspondence

932 - Special Effects unit annual report

933 - Electronic Data Processing at the Natural History Museum: a report by DB Williams

934 - File relating to Cataloguing projects

935 - Coronation of Edward VII

Expand 1005 - Director's Office: Personnel Files

1005 - Director's Office: Personnel Files

Expand 1006 - Director's Office: Salary and Wage Records

1006 - Director's Office: Salary and Wage Records

Expand 1007 - Director's Office: Registers of Payable Orders

1007 - Director's Office: Registers of Payable Orders

Expand 1008 - Director's Office: Journals, Ledgers, Abstracts and other Financial Records

1008 - Director's Office: Journals, Ledgers, Abstracts and other Financial Records

Expand 1009 - Director's Office: The Establishment Officer's Files

1009 - Director's Office: The Establishment Officer's Files

Expand 1011 - Director's Office: Printed Forms

1011 - Director's Office: Printed Forms

Expand 1021 - Human Resources

1021 - Human Resources

Expand 1022 - Finance

Expand 1023 - Audit and Risk

1023 - Audit and Risk

Expand BOT - Botany

Expand DIR - Directorate

DIR - Directorate

Expand ENT - Entomology

ENT - Entomology

Expand EXH - Exhibitions, Education and Events

EXH - Exhibitions, Education and Events

Expand GM - Geological Museum

GM - Geological Museum

Expand LIB - Library and Information Services

LIB - Library and Information Services

Expand MIN - Mineralogy

MIN - Mineralogy

Expand OB - Collection of historical objects and memorabilia

OB - Collection of historical objects and memorabilia

Expand PAL - Palaeontology

PAL - Palaeontology

Expand PH - Museum Photograph Collection

PH - Museum Photograph Collection

Expand PUB - Museum Publications

PUB - Museum Publications

Expand SSC - Natural History Museum Sport and Social Clubs

SSC - Natural History Museum Sport and Social Clubs

Expand TM - Tring Museum Correspondence

TM - Tring Museum Correspondence

Expand TR - Tring Museum/Walter Rothschild

TR - Tring Museum/Walter Rothschild

Expand TRI - Tring Museum Management

TRI - Tring Museum Management

Expand TRU - The Trustees

TRU - The Trustees

Expand WAR - Wartime Records

WAR - Wartime Records

Expand ZOO - Zoology

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