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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
68 - Science Museum
Ref No
RC/68/1
Title
Correspondence, 1876-91, 1907-10
Description
Correspondence, 1876-91, 1907-10, between the Commission and the Treasury, the Board of Education, the Office of Works, Sir Norman Lockyer, Francis Ogilvie, Sir Henry Roscoe, Sir Henry Fowler, Fladgates, Walter Runciman, Sir Arthur Bigge and Alan Cole, concerning the Commission's proposals to the Treasury for the erection of a Science Museum; the sale of land to the south of Imperial Institute Road and of the central block of the Southern Galleries to the Government for £100,000; the restrictive covenants in the Conveyance; Memorial to Lord Salisbury from men of science regarding the Science Museum and the Gallery of British Art at South Kensington (April 1891); Sir Norman Lockyer's views and his 'Memorandum on the proposed Science Museum', 1907; Memorandum of a meeting between Sir Arthur Bigge and Mr. Ogilvie at the Board of Education on the subject of the Science Museum (1908); letter from eminent scientists and others in support of a building for a science museum, n.d.; the renewal in 1910 of the Commissioners' offer to allot £100,000 towards the cost of a new building; 'Preliminary report of the Departmental Committee on the Science Museum and the Geological Museum', 1910.
Date
1876 - 1891
1907 - 1910
Format
Manuscript
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DS/UK/47
Bigge; Arthur John (1849-1931); Baron Stamfordham; Courtier
1849-1931
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