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Collapse 1 - 'Letters and report': official letters and reports to Trustees of J G Children1 - 'Letters and report': official letters and reports to Trustees of J G Children
1 - J Forshall to Children - Hudson Bay Company
2 - Committee resolution - accounts
3 - Committee order - purchase recommendations
4 - Committee order - order for tables for shells
5 - Children to the Committee - stands needed for birds presented by J J Audubon
6 - Committee order - purchases to be shown
7 - Committee order - donation list to include purchases
8 - Committee direction - sanction for purchases
9 - Estimate for Zoological Branch for 1833
10 - Committee order - holiday allowance
11 - Committee order - Children instructed to report on the collections
12 - Children to J E Gray - the shell collection
13 - Committee order - naming mammals, birds etc.
14 - Committee order - leave applications
15 - Committee order - unstuffed skins
16 - H Ellis to Children - visitors doing drawings
17-18 - Notes on number of skins
19 - Committee direction - large mammals
20 - Committee orders - McCulloch birds, Audubon birds, Gould's kangaroos, and Mrs [Adrian Hardy] Haworth's insects; a report asked for on the state of the collections
21 - Children to George Samouelle - requests detailed report on crustacea, arachnida and insecta
22 - Children to J E Gray - requests report
23 - Children to Trustees - report on collections
24 - Children to Trustees - duplicate insects
25 - Children to J E Gray et al - requests report on duplicates
26 - Children to J E Gray et al - requests report on duplicates
28 - Committee order - improvements to 'Synopsis of the British Museum'
29 - Committee order - reptiles bought from W Corke
30 - Mr Jenner, Windsor, to Children - offers rat
31 - Committee order - work for G R Gray
32-33 - W Smith, Hudson Bay Company, to Forshall - offers fish from Richardson collection, with a list
34 - Sub Committee - re Synopsis of the British Museum
35 - G Skeavington to Children - sends horns
36 - G Skeavington to Children - declines offer of £3 (with reply)
37 - J Forshall to Children - enlargement of collection
38 - Children to J Forshall - enlargement of the collection
39 - Committee order - exchange of birds and purchase of mammals from Wilhelm Ruppell
40 - Children to Committee - Gould's Australian birds
41 - Clift W
42 - W J Broderip to [?]Children - shell collection
43 - Committee order - pecuniary value of duplicate shells
44 - Committee order - Mr [William] Broderip's shells
45-46 - J Forshall to Children - alterations in his duties
47 - Trustees' query - glazed case for corals
48 - Committee order - no pay rise possible
49 - J Forshall to Children - responsibilities of Keeper of Zoological branch
51 - Committee order - purchase of birds from Mr Tucker
52 - J E Gray to [?]Children - Mr [Andrew] Smith's Cape mammals
53 - A Miller to Children - offers British water birds
54 - Children to George Samouelle - access to collections
55 - Forshall to Children - salary for assistants
56 - Correspondence between Children and J Forshall, George Samouelle, H Ellis and J E Gray
57 - Committee order - details of new building
58 - Children to George Samouelle - his absence
59 - Trustees decision - disposal of duplicates
60 - Committee order - diaries to be kept
61 - Children to Trustees - purchases and presentations
62 - Committee requests - presses needed, destruction
63 - Children to Trustees - purchases and presentations, M.Verreaux's Cape mammals
64 - Committee sanction - purchase of Verreaux mammals
65 - J Forshall to Children - furniture
66 - Committee order - monthly reports
67 - H Ellis to Children - diaries
68 - Committee request - Dr J E Cliffe's Brazilian specimens, with a copy of his letter
70 - Children - note of George Samouelle's absences
71 - Children to George Samouelle - his attendance and health
72 - W Mitchelson, surgeon - certificate for George Samouelle
73 - J Forshall to Children - allegations of Edward Blyth
74 - Children to seven naturalists - conduct of G R Gray
75 - Children - On the Gray / Blyth affair
76 - Notes of interview with Edward Blyth
77 - J Forshall to Children - furniture
79 - Committee decision - locks for cases
80 - J E Gray to Children - report on catalogues
81 - Committee sanction - sale of South African Museum
82 - J Forshall to Children - limited space
83 - Committee order - arrangement of new building
84 - Children - arrangement of new building
85 - Committee order - exchange of Crustacea with Thomas Bell
86 - J Forshall to Children - exchange of Crustacea with Thomas Bell
87 - J Forshall to George Samouelle - his absences
88 - Committee order - fossil shells from Lord Northampton
89 - Committee order - bills for articulating skeletons
90 - Committee order - purchases from South African Museum
91 - Committee order - progress report requested
92 - Children - report on cataloguing system
93 - George Samouelle - progress in cataloguing insects
94 - George Samouelle - Dr W E Leach's catalogues
95 - Committee order - bills for articulating skeletons
96 - Committee resolution - arrangement in new building; additions to the collections
97-98 - J Forshall to Children - instructions for James Brooke
99 - Children - rough notes for Mr [James] Brooke
100 - Children to J Forshall - instructions for James Brooke in the Far East
101 - Committee order - attendance of attendants
102 - H Ellis to Children - attendance of attendants
103 - Committee order - suspension of George Samouelle
104 - Committee order - monthly accessions list
105 - A Traveller to The Librarian - horns of the moose
106 - Children to J Forshall - estimates for Zoology Branch
107 - J Forshall to Children - exchange with Antigua
108 - Children to J Forshall - exchange with Antigua
109 - J Forshall to Children - requests estimates
110 - Committee order - offers of sale
111 - Committee notice - articulating skeletons
113 - Committee order - accessions book
114 - Forshall to Children - re Dr [Richard] Parnell, a collector
115 - Committee notice - purchase of an anteater
116 - Children to Trustees - the Museum's anteaters
117 - Committee notice - an offer by W C St John from Newfoundland
119 - J Forshall to Children - new impression of 'Instructions for collecting...'
120 - J Forshall to Children - re Lord Northampton's Italian specimens
121 - J Forshall to Children - spiders' eggs from Mr Hennah
122 - Committee notice - arrangement of British birds; purchase of insects
123 - Committee notice - plans for northwest building
124 - Sub-Committee recommendations - monthly reports
125 - Committee notice - purchase of shells and bird stands
126-127 - H Ellis to Children - annual reports, with a list of memoranda
128 - Children - answers to H Ellis' memoranda
129 - Report on the Zoological Branch
130 - Committee resolution - British birds to be incorporated in general collection
131 - Committee notice - stands for fish
132 - Committee resolution - incorporation of the British shells
133 - Committee approval - purchase of humming birds from Mr Turner
134 - Progress of catalogues, 1838-9
135 - J E Gray, annual report for 1838-9
136 - G R Gray, annual report for 1838-9
137-139 - George Samouelle, progress report for 1838-9
140 - Adam White, progress report for 1838-9
141 - J Forshall to Children - table cases lent to König
142 - Committee report - mammals from Mr Warwick
143 - Committee report - birdskins from J Leadbeater and insects from Reverend L Guilding
144-145 - Committee notice - Mr Turner to clean corals
146 - Committee order - table covers to be marked
147 - Committee notice - Mr Wincey suspended
148 - J E Gray - fish stands needed
150 - Robert Smirke to Children - rebuilding postponed
151 - Children to his staff - progress reports wanted
152 - Committee order - progress reports required
153 - Committee notice - room to be closed
154 - Children to his staff - staff not to name specimens for visitors
155 - Trustees resolution - staff in pecuniary difficulties
156 - Trustees order - furniture estimates
157 - Committee order - registration of objects
158 - H Ellis to Children - progress reports
159 - Committee notice - progress reports
160 - Committee notice - worthless acquisitions
2 - 'Report book': J G Children's copies of his reports to Trustees, with other letters and lists, 1835-1837
3 - Partial transcript and index to the report book, 1980
4 - 'Reports, minutes etc. Zoological Department': reports to Trustees, official letters, correspondence, lists and notes concerning the collections, 1835-1845
5 - 'Reports, minutes etc. Zoological Department': reports to Trustees, official letters, correspondence, lists and notes concerning the collections, 1840-1842
6 - 'Reports, minutes etc. Zoological Department': reports to Trustees, official letters, correspondence, lists and notes concerning the collections, 1843-1846
7 - 'Reports, minutes etc. Zoological Department': reports to Trustees, official letters, correspondence, lists and notes concerning the collections, 1847-1848
8 - 'Reports, minutes etc. Zoological Department': reports to Trustees, official letters, correspondence, lists and notes concerning the collections, 1848-1853
9 - 'Copies of reports': fair copies of official letters and reports to Trustees, 1870-1871
10 - 'Copies of reports': fair copies of official letters and reports to Trustees
11 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1875-1878
12 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1879-1880
13 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1881
14 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1882
15 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1883
16 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1884
17 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1885
18 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1886
19 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1887
20 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1888
21 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1889
22 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1890
23 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1891
24 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1892
25 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1893
26 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1894
27 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1895-1897
28 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1898-1900
29 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1901-1903
30 - 'Official documents': copies of reports to Trustees with supporting letters, lists and notes, 1904-1906
31 - Meetings for the year, 1909
32 - Reports to Trustees
33 - Meetings for the year
34 - Reports to Trustees
35 - Reports to Trustees
36 - Meetings for the year
37 - Reports to Trustees
38 - Reports to Trustees
39 - Reports to Trustees
40 - Meetings for the year
41 - Meetings for the year
42 - Reports to Trustees
43 - Reports to Trustees
44 - Meetings for the year
45 - Meetings for the year
46 - Reports to Trustees
47 - Reports to Trustees
48 - Meetings for the year
49 - Meetings for the year
50 - Reports to Trustees
51 - Reports to Trustees
52 - Meetings for the year
53 - Meetings for the year
54 - Reports to Trustees
55 - Reports to Trustees
56 - Meetings for the year
57 - Meetings for the year
58 - Reports to Trustees
59 - Reports to Trustees
60 - Meetings for the year
61 - Reports to Trustees
62 - Reports to Trustees
63 - Meetings for the year
64 - Reports to Trustees
65 - Reports to Trustees
66 - Meetings for the year
67 - Reports to Trustees
68 - Reports to Trustees
69 - Meetings for the year
70 - Reports to Trustees
71 - Reports to Trustees
72 - Meetings for the year
73 - Meetings for the year
74 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 1-6
75 - Contents to reports and Documents, Volume 1
76 - Contents to reports and Documents, Volume 2
77 - Contents to reports and Documents, Volume 3
78 - Contents to reports and Documents, Volume 4
79 - Contents to reports and Documents, Volume 5
80 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 7-11
81 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 12-14
82 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 15-17
83 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 18-22
84 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 23-30
85 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 31-40
86 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 41-50
87 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 51-55
88 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 56-58
89 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 59-63
90 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 64-68
91 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 69-72
92 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 73-76
93 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 77-80
94 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 81-84
95 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 85-88
96 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 89-92
97 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 93-96
98 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 97-100
99 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 101-104
100 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 105-108
101 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 109-112
102 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 113-116
103 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 117-120
104 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 121-123
105 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 124-127
106 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 128-131
107 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 132-135
108 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 136-138
109 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 139-142
110 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 143-146
111 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 147-152
112 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 153-155
113 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 156-162
114 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 163-168
115 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 169-172
116 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 173-184
117 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 185-188
118 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 189-194
119 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 195-200
120 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 201-206
121 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 207-211
122 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 212-217
123 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 218-222
124 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 223-227
125 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 228-232
126 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 233-237
127 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 238-242
128 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 243-247
129 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 248-252
130 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 253-257
131 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 258-262
132 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 263-267
133 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 268-272
134 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 273-278
135 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 279-284
136 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 285-290
137 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 291-295
138 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 296-300
139 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 301-305
140 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 306-310
141 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 311-315
142 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 316-320
143 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 321-325
144 - Reports to Trustees, Nos 326-330
145 - Official papers relating to progress of the Department
146 - Official papers relating to staff and staffing
147 - Official letters to J E Gray, 1865-1872
148 - Discovery collections: reports to and from Trustees
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