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Natural History Museum

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Date: 1700-2017
Places:
  • London
Functions, occupations and activities: Libraries, museums and institutes > National libraries and museums
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C18308 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/O34297 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1828-1998: zoology department records
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF200-299
NRA 32710 Natural History Mus

See Annual Return 2001
2
1756-1983: mineralogy department records
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF
NRA 32747 Natural
3
1827-1992: botany department records
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF400-499
NRA 33249 Natural History Mus

See Annual Return 2001
4
c1960-1989: palaeontology department records
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF/PAL
See Annual Return 2001
5
1838-1970: trustees and directorate papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF900-09 930-39
NRA 33921 Natural
6
c1951-80: polychaete research group corresp and papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 2001
7
19th Century: China Collection: 39 watercolour drawings by native artists of Chinese plants, reptiles, fish and birds, undated but probably early nineteenth century
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L MSS CHI
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
8
19th Century: Japan Collection: 200 watercolour drawings on silk, depicting snails, worms, amphibians and reptiles, by a Japanese artist
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
L MSS JAP
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
9
18th-20th Century: Handwriting Collection, containing examples of the handwriting of more than 3500 naturalists of the eighteen, nineteen and twentieth centuries
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
10
1950-1999: zoology department additional records, parasitic worms section corresp
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 2004
11
1956-1995: palaeontology department additional records, Formanifera secton corresp
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 2004
12
1920-1939: entomology department records, Lepidoptera section corresp of George Bisset
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
See Annual Return 2004
13
1930-2002: collection of chromosome photographs, Diptera photographs, correspondence and notes by Magda Charalambous
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2016/35
See Annual Return 2016
14
1992-2000: mineralogy department annual reports, departmental plans, enquiries
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2016/25
See Annual Return 2016
15
2013-2015: board of trustees and executive board meetings, annual trustee dinner invitations and menu cards
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2016/59
See Annual Return 2016
16
1980-2016: files rel to the set up and running of the Centre for Arts and Humanities Research (CAHR), Museum Lives files and audio tapes, CAHR partnership and promotional materials and Lady Edith Blake entomology library project
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2016/61
See Annual Return 2016
17
1998-2017: old intranet forum (digital resource)
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2017/06
18
2017: Audit and Risk Committee papers (digital resource)
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2017/09 and 2017/18
19
2007: recordings of the relocation of the Cranbourne meteorite
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2017/01
20
1976-1987: user guides and visitor surveys
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2017/14
21
2020: Covid-19 archive
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2020/5
See Annual Return 2020
22
1985: Division of Higher Vertebrates: birds and mammals annual report
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF ZOO/209/72
See Annual Return 2020
23
2020: Trustees Audit Committee: minutes and papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
DF TRU/901/2/77
See Annual Return 2020
24
2020-2021: Trustees Audit and Risk Committee: papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2021/4
See Annual Return 2021
25
2014-2021: letters from the Royal Household
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2021/13
See Annual Return 2021
26
c1980: Anthropology letters
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2021/15
See Annual Return 2021
27
1798-2012: fossil fish assorted papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2021/19
See Annual Return 2021
28
1901-1989: Bryozoa correspondence and assorted papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2022/2
See Annual Return 2022
29
1919-2007: Brachiopod correspondence and assorted papers
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2022/10
See Annual Return 2022
30
1962-1991: Earth Sciences Reptiles research and correspondence
Natural History Museum Library and Archives
2022/26
See Annual Return 2022