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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Notes, Reports and Correspondence...
Catalogue reference: DF 10
What’s it about?
This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Notes, Reports and Correspondence... dating from 1796-1980.
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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 10
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Notes, Reports and Correspondence on Specimen Collections
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1796-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of notes, reports and correspondence on specimen collections of the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Mineralogy.
All records in the series relate in some way to the collections of rocks, minerals and meterorites. They document the acquisition or non-acquisition of particular specimens or collections, the regulation of loans and exchanges, the crystallographic measurement of specimens from the collections, the treatment of locality information in the registers and on exhibition labels, and the evacuation and return of specimens in wartime. The earliest material dates from the days of Konig and Sir Joseph Banks, well before the foundation of the Department, while the latest documents were produced only a few years before they were listed.
The series includes files originally in DF 7 and some records may have been removed from the official reports now in DF 3.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference DF MIN/10). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 10.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The series is arranged in four broad subject groups: meteorites, specific named collections, general notes and scientific notes.
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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)
- 102 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure
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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)
- Records in this series were assembled from different parts of the Department. Most of the records were held in either the mineralogy or petrology sections, but some originate from the Keeper's Office, some from the working papers of the individuals concerned and others may have been removed from the official reports now in DF 3.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5834/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Notes, Reports and Correspondence on Specimen Collections