Catalogue description British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Departmental Correspondence, Individual Collections

This record is held by Natural History Museum Library and Archives

Details of DF 3
Reference: DF 3
Title: British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Departmental Correspondence, Individual Collections
Description:

This series consists of individual collections of departmental correspondence of the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Mineralogy.

This series consists of individual correspondence files and volumes of a number of staff in the Department, together with a larger collection of papers relating to meteorites.

The papers relating to meterorites consists of boxed folders of letters and other papers each relating to an individual specimen or fall. The other papers range over the whole work of the department.

There is a card index of writers represented in the meterorite papers in DF 3/1-3

Note:

Separated material: Some material may have been removed to DF 10

Date: 1817-1978
Held by: Natural History Museum Library and Archives, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 9 files and volumes
Access conditions:

Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure

Immediate source of acquisition:

Custodial history: The meterorite 'collection' probably originated from the Keeper's Office, while one file (piece 5) derives from the Department of Zoology.

Subjects:
  • Museums and galleries

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