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Expand 1 - Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence1 - Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence
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Expand 3 - Meteorite Section Correspondence3 - Meteorite Section Correspondence
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Expand 10 - Mineralogy (including Meteorites) Collection Notes, Reports and Correspondence10 - Mineralogy (including Meteorites) Collection Notes, Reports and Correspondence
Expand 11 - Reports and Correspondence on Collecting Trips and Visits11 - Reports and Correspondence on Collecting Trips and Visits
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1 - List of minerals from Australia displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851
2 - Descriptive notes on large specimens in the gallery by Leonard J Spencer
3 - Draft text for a guide leaflet to the gallery by Leonard J Spencer
4 - List of photographs displayed in the gallery by Leonard J Spencer
5 - Reports on the gallery for the Director
6 - Reports and memoranda regarding repairs to the gallery
7 - Return of evacuated collections and their arrangement in the gallery: notes and memoranda
8 - Plans for reconstruction of gallery exhibits after the War
9 - Lists of specimens for display and policy notes on exhibitions
10 - Memorandum on transfer of exhibition space from Department of Mineralogy to Department of Zoology
11 - Notes for display of the Frederick Ashcroft collection of minerals from Switzerland
12 - Specimens used in exhibits and arrangements for their security
13 - List of specimens for temporary exhibit, 'Ore minerals with new strategic uses: titanium and zirconium'
14 - List of specimens carved by Alfred L Pocock lent for display by E P Bottley
15 - Meteorite pavilion: correspondence, plans and papers
16 - Notes for display of the Arthur Pain collection of gemstones
17 - Notes for 'Highlights of the Mineral Gallery' by Albert G Couper, never published
18 - Labels and notes by Albert G Couper for a display of minerals of historic interest for the visit of the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, 27 May
19 - Notes on Werner's scale of colours by Lazarus Fletcher for a introduction to the study of minerals exhibit
20 - Drafts, notes and memoranda by George T Prior for a geological display in Central Hall, with some later papers of Walter Campbell Smith
21 - Rock exhibits in the Mineral Gallery: a summary list, with memoranda
22 - Meteorite displays, including development of the Meteorite Pavilion (1973)
23 - Contents of drawers in Mr H Smith's room, many since transferred to the pavilion
24 - Contents of drawers in Mr Prior's room, many since transferred to the pavilion
25 - Printed labels from the Mineral Gallery, kept as samples
26 - 'Meteorites in the British Museum', a description of exhibited specimens
27 - 'Catalogue of the collection of meteorites exhibited in the Mineral Department of the British Museum
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