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Expand 100 - Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence 100 - Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence
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Expand 103 - Palaeontology Reports to Trustees and other Official Documents103 - Palaeontology Reports to Trustees and other Official Documents
Expand 104 - Palaeontology Reports of Progress, Monthly and Annual104 - Palaeontology Reports of Progress, Monthly and Annual
Expand 105 - Palaeontology Department Acquisition, Loan and Exchanges, Correspondence and Papers105 - Palaeontology Department Acquisition, Loan and Exchanges, Correspondence and Papers
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1 - Accommodation in the new museum
2 - Labels by Henry Woodward for a display on dynamical geology
3 - Plan for rearrangement of the museum by A Smith Woodward
4 - Statements on the importance of the study of fossils by F A Bather
5 - Reports on visits and expeditions
6 - Memorandum on the Cretaceous catalogues
7 - Proposals for new exhibitions
8 - Visit to India by A T Hopwood
9 - Memorandum on the work of Miss M E J Chandler
10 - Accommodation, including provision of cabinets
11 - F O Barlow: his work on casting
12 - Survey of the collections
13 - Wartime regulations and Procedures
14 - Air-raid precautions, including evacuation of specimens
15 - Lists of fossil mammals and birds for evacuation
16 - Expedition to Spitzbergen by E I White
17 - C T Trechmann bequest
18 - Accommodation: papers prepared for the Macmillan Committee, with correspondence
19 - Manual of procedure
20 - Senior staff meetings: notes and agendas
22 - Oswald F: expedition to Victoria Nyanza, East Africa
23 - Accommodation: departmental space requirements
24 - Accommodation: general matters
25 - Accommodation: revised estimates of space requirements in new East Wing
26 - Accommodation: correspondence with architects of East Wing
27 - Accommodation: comments on plans for new East Wing
28 - Artists
29 - Catalogue of fossil man
30 - Disposal of reprints
31 - Expedition to Australia
32 - Use of chemicals in the Museum
33 - Invertebrate Palaeontology Gallery correspondence and reports
34 - Lang, W D, autobiographical notes
35 - Collection of bound letters and obituaries addressed to Dr W D Lang regarding his predecessor Dr F A Bather
36 - Wonders Exhibition (also known as 'Wonder Bays'), Central Hall
37 - Fossil Mammal Gallery
38 - Quarterly meetings of Keepers and Departments
39 - Exhibition Galleries V and X (Reptiles and Dinosaurs)
40 - Exhibition Gallery VI (Fossil Plants)
46 - Theft of Pteraspis rostrata (Agassiz) var trimplyensis White 1935 (P16478)
48 - Titled 'The Intelligent Public': letters written to the Keeper of Geology enquiring about various specimens; theories on evolution; expressing dissent with Darwinism
49 - Conference programme: 'Volcanism, Impacts and Mass Extinctions: Causes and Effects', held at the Natural History Museum
50 - File of correspondence and papers relating to Dorothea Bate
51 - Stephen Donovan and Stanley Westhead correspondence and associated papers
52 - Setional Work Appraisals
53 - Messel fossil pit, Germany
54 - Proposed Museum charges
55 - Complaints from outside the Department
56 - Research in the Department
57 - File relating to Aldabra expedition
58 - Correspondence and papers relating to the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries
59 - File on anthropology sub-department
60 - 'Forward look' budget planning documents
61 - File of plans and papers relating to furniture requirements for new extension (east wing)
62 - File on Aldabra expedition
63 - Minutes of meetings of museum sub-committee on the scientific departments
64 - File of reports and correspondence on dinosaur footprints found at Swanage
65 - File of correspondence and reports relating to Aveley mammoth bones
66 - File on Tanganyika expedition 1963
67 - Papers relating to Museum centenary open days
68 - File relating to planning and organising centenary activities (open day and publications)
69 - Minutes of Staff departmental meetings
70 - Minutes of Staff departmental meetings
71 - Minutes of Staff departmental meetings
72 - Minutes of Staff departmental meetings
73 - Minutes of Staff departmental meetings
74 - File relating to serology unit projects
75 - File relating to grant for serology projects from the Royal Society
76 - File relating to liaison with the World Health Organisation
77 - File relating to research visits to museums in America, Canada and New Zealand
78 - File relating to damage to specimens
79 - File relating to research fellowships
80 - File relating to liaison with other museums, mainly realting to specimen enquiries and research
81 - File relating to British Council sponsored overseas research visitors to the museum
82 - File relating to research visitors to the department
83 - File relating to the east wing extension, including plans, correspondence, information relating to faults, design, implementation, furniture and fittings etc
84 - File relating to cold stores in the east wing
85 - File relating to the east wing laboratories and storage of chemicals and inflammables
86 - File relating to east wing rationalised storage
87 - File relating to the official opening of the east wing, including invitation lists and programmes etc
88 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
89 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
90 - File relating to research visits to museums in America, Canada and New Zealand
91 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
92 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
93 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
94 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
95 - File relating to research visitors to the paleontology department
96 - Copy of 'evaluation of research activities of the British Museum (Natural History)' by PREST (Policy Research in Engineering, Science and Technology at Manchester University)
97 - File relating to the Ludlow Bone Bed - research and donation of material
98 - File relating to the purchase of collections from Ludlow museum
99 - Correspondence: Professor FW Shotton
100 - Correspondence: JR Allen
101 - Correspondence: JD Lawson
102 - Correspondence: WD Ian Rolfe
103 - Correspondence: Dr FHT Rhodes
104 - Correspondence: Dr I Strachan
105 - Correspondence: DL Dineley
106 - Correspondence: JN Ball
107 - Correspondence: JW Baker
108 - Correspondence: W Wickham King
109 - Correspondence: HB Whittington
110 - Correspondence: JT Wattison
111 - Correspondence: Prof Karl Krejci-Graf
112 - Correspondence: CD Waterson
113 - Correspondence: LJ Wills
114 - Correspondence: Professor U Jux
115 - Correspondence: research - Antarctica: University of Maine
116 - File relating to museum staff working on Geological Surveys overseas
117 - File relating to acid laboratories
118 - File relating to the mammal gallery
119 - File relating to electronic data processing
120 - File relating to collecting exhibitions, not by museum staff
121 - File relating to collections, mainly visiting other organisations and advising on their collections
122 - File relating to television and radio broadcasts
123 - File relating to a research visit to Germany
124 - File relating research on cornstones and spirobis
125 - File relating to exhibition galleries
126 - File relating to gifts to the museum
127 - File relating to the Science Liaision Group
128 - File relating to funds - outside sources
129 - File relating department of palaeontology corporate plan
130 - File relating to the department of palaeontology centenary open days
131 - Gough's Cave
132 - Faecal pellets
133 - British Geological Survey
134 - Casts
135 - Acid laboratory
136 - Plesiosaur from Whittlesey
137 - Fletton plesiosaur
138 - Marston plesiosaur
139 - Pliosaur from Stewartby
140 - Departmental leaflets
141 - De-registration of specimens
142 - Conservation
143 - Loch Ness monster
144 - Swanscombe excavation
145 - Expedition to Turkey
146 - People's Republic of China - visits
147 - Kenya & Uganda
148 - National Museums of Kenya - L.S.B Leakey - Rusinga Material
149 - National Museums of Kenya - Proconsul africanus
150 - Visits to Jordan
151 - Press coverage of Hominids discovery
152 - East Infill Project
153 - Report on the accommodation required for the Department of Palaeontology by 1971
154 - Notes for a history of the department
155 - East Wing
156 - Stan Wood's fossils
158 - Review of collections management
161 - East Wing extension fitting schedules - Echinoderms and Problematica
162 - Overseas Geological Surveys: Summaries of work done
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Expand 109 - Palaeontology Publications Correspondence and Artwork109 - Palaeontology Publications Correspondence and Artwork
Expand 110 - Palaeontology Parcel Books110 - Palaeontology Parcel Books
Expand 116 - Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man116 - Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man
Expand 117 - Palaeontology and Geology Loan Registers117 - Palaeontology and Geology Loan Registers
Expand 118 - Palaeontology Accession Registers118 - Palaeontology Accession Registers
Expand 120 - Palaeontology Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers120 - Palaeontology Early Members of Staff: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 121 - Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers121 - Fossil Reptilia Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 122 - Fossil Mollusca Section: Correspondence and Papers122 - Fossil Mollusca Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 123 - Fossil Echinodermata Section: Correspondence and Papers123 - Fossil Echinodermata Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 124 - Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers124 - Fossil Brachiopoda Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 125 - Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers125 - Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 126 - Fossil Fish Section: Correspondence and Papers126 - Fossil Fish Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 127 - Fossil Foraminifera Section: Correspondence and Papers127 - Fossil Foraminifera Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 128 - Fossil Insect Section: Correspondence and Papers128 - Fossil Insect Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 129 - Fossil Mammal Section: Correspondence and Papers129 - Fossil Mammal Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 130 - Palaeobotany Section: Correspondence and papers130 - Palaeobotany Section: Correspondence and papers
Expand 131 - Micropalaeontology Section: Correspondence and Papers131 - Micropalaeontology Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 132 - Fossil Arthropod Section: Correspondence and Papers132 - Fossil Arthropod Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 133 - Fossil Algae Section: Correspondence and Papers133 - Fossil Algae Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 140 - Anthropology Sub-Department Staff Correspondence and Papers140 - Anthropology Sub-Department Staff Correspondence and Papers
Expand 141 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Subject Files141 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Subject Files
Expand 143 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Photographic Collection143 - Anthropology Sub-Department: Photographic Collection
Expand 150 - Geology Section: Correspondence and Papers150 - Geology Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 151 - Preparator Section: Correspondence and Papers151 - Preparator Section: Correspondence and Papers
Expand 152 - Palaeontology Expeditions152 - Palaeontology Expeditions
Expand 160 - Palaeontology Library Accessions160 - Palaeontology Library Accessions
Expand 161 - Palaeontology Librarian's Correspondence161 - Palaeontology Librarian's Correspondence
Expand 162 - Fossil Bryozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers162 - Fossil Bryozoa Section: Correspondence and Papers
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