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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Oceanography Section...
Catalogue reference: DF 28
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This record is about the British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Oceanography Section... dating from 1939-1954.
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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 28
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Title (The name of the record)
- British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Oceanography Section Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1954
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series consists of oceanography section correspondence and papers of the British Museum (Natural History) Department of Mineralogy. These are the only two items generated by this section.
Series held at The Natural History Museum are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue . Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, see DF 28.
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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)
- 2 volume(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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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
- The records were transferred to the archives in 1981 and 1991.
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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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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing.
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Oceanography Section was founded in 1935 with the transfer of the John Murray collection of oceanic sediments and rocks from the Department of Zoology, where it had been since its presentation by the Murray family in 1920. John Dugdale Holt Wiseman (born 1906), who had a doctorate in petrology from the University of Cambridge was appointed in the same year to curate and study the collections. Wiseman became Deputy Keeper of Mineralogy in 1968 and retired in 1972. The section was never accommodated in the main building of the Museum, starting life in Block B of the s-called Discovery huts, moving to the war rooms in the East gardens in 1951, and to Acton in 1970. The name of the Section was changed to Ocean Botton Deposits Section in 1973 and to Oceanic Petrology in 1977.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- 'Fifty Years of Oceanography in the Department of Mineralogy', by DRC Kempe and HA Buckley, 1987, Bulletin of the British Museum, (Natural History), Historical series 15 (2).
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C5852/
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British Museum (Natural History): Department of Mineralogy: Oceanography Section Correspondence and Papers