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Expand 1 - Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence1 - Mineralogy Departmental Correspondence
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1 - Disposal of duplicate or otherwise unwanted specimens, including worked flints from the Geological Museum.
2 - Staff complement and requirements
3 - Security of specimens in the Mineral Gallery
4 - Staff job descriptions, with advertisements for vacancies
5 - Minutes of departmental staff meetings, with supporting papers
6 - Microfilming and photocopying of registers and catalogues.
7 - Dinners, including centenary of the Department, and Walter Campbell Smith's 80th birthday
8 - Report on organisation and method in the Department by Mr Blyth
9 - Research policy and projects.
10 - Equipment: correspondence with Cambridge Instruments and others on the stereoscan, microprobe analyser and other items
11 - Research fellowships
12 - Mineral Library
13 - Theft of diamonds lent for exhibition
14 - Purchase of mineral specimens using enhancement grant funding
15 - Proposed research on lunar samples
16 - Equipment: correspondence with suppliers on x-ray generators and cameras, spectrophotometers and other items
17 - Walter Campbell Smith's comments on John G Kerr's paper on the Museum, prepared for the Director
18 - Estimates under subheads A, B and C
19 - Loan of rocks, minerals and meteorites
20 - Bovedy meteorite, Northern Ireland
21 - Departmental publications
22 - Oceanography Section
23 - Mundrabilla meteorite, Australia
24 - Health and Safety Committee
25 - Establishment of photographic library
26 - Administration of EM Unit
27 - Joint Natural History Museum and NERC Study Group on Mineral Exhibits
28 - Theft of Colenso Diamond
29 - Collections: conservation and sale of specimens
30 - Relations with IGS (Institues of Geological Sciences)
31 - E M Unit
32 - Security: correspondence and memoranda
33 - Exhibitions: correspondence and memoranda
Expand 34 - Geological Museum Merger34 - Geological Museum Merger
35 - Mineralogy and Museums conference, 1988
36 - Minutes and agenda papers of keepers' meetings
37 - Trustees' purchase recommendations
38 - Project Group Reports
39 - Memoranda and discussion papers for heads of department meeting
40 - File relating to the redevelopment of the Geological Museum
41 - Computing
42 - Specimen purchases
43 - Specimen purchases
45 - Specimen purchases
46 - Specimen purchases
47 - Specimen purchases
48 - Specimen purchases
49 - Review of the Geological Museum (BMNH, IGS and NERC)
50 - Research: minerals first described by staff
51 - Research: Water Quality Control Programme
52 - Security: Salvage
53 - Collections: building and decorative stones
54 - Collections: other than NHM
55 - Collections: purchases
56 - E M Unit: Transmission Electron Microscope
57 - E M Unit: case of third scanning electron microscope
58 - E M Unit: purchase of new scanning electon microscope
59 - E M Unit: general file
60 - E M Unit: General file
61 - Collections: ocean bottom deposits
62 - Meetings: Heads of Sections
63 - Meetings: Grade 6 and Grade 7 staff
64 - Collections: Valuations (general)
65 - Collections: Loans
66 - Trustees: Reports from Mineralogy
67 - Trustees: Reports from Mineralogy
68 - Visiting Groups to Mineralogy
69 - Trustees meetings: purchase permissions
70 - Channel Tunnel
71 - JCPDS X-ray Project
72 - Mineralogy and Museums Conference
73 - Publications: general file
74 - Reports: PREST Survey
75 - Departmental Scientific Research
76 - Mineral Exchanges
77 - Visitors to the BM (NH): A digest of demographics data from visitor surveys
80 - Rathite and Wiltshireite synonomy correspondence
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Expand 23 - Mineralogy Departmental Visitors Books23 - Mineralogy Departmental Visitors Books
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Expand 29 - Outgoing Mineralogy Donations Books and other donation records29 - Outgoing Mineralogy Donations Books and other donation records
Expand 31 - Specimen Loan Books31 - Specimen Loan Books
Expand 32 - Mineralogy Accession Registers32 - Mineralogy Accession Registers
Expand 33 - Mineralogy Department Photograph Collection33 - Mineralogy Department Photograph Collection
Expand 34 - Mineralogy Press Cuttings34 - Mineralogy Press Cuttings
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