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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Departmental Finance and...
Catalogue reference: DF 207
What’s it about?
This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Departmental Finance and... dating from 1840-1956.
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Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- DF 207
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Departmental Finance and Accounts
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1840-1956
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains all available documents concerned with the finances of the Department of Zoology. It represents the chance survivors from what must have been a much larger corpus of material.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF ZOO/207). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 207.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The Natural History Museum Archives, London
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 24 files and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- DF 207/1-12 were transferred to the archives in 1982, DF 207/13-18 in 1989.
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Museums and galleries
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Although all the records were within the department at the time of transfer, some of them may well have been raised by the central administration and transferred at some later date.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C15967/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Zoology: Departmental Finance and Accounts