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RC - Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Archive
H - Collections on Permanent Loan
1 - Prince Albert's Archive
20 - Volume XX : March 1864 - May 1865
Ref No
RC/H/1/20/6
Title
12 May 1864 Edgar Bowring to Gen Grey
Description
Letter reporting the passing of the Bill to extend the Metropolitan Railway from Paddington to the South Kensington Museum, the defeat of the proposal to hold a Commission of Enquiry into the Patent Office and museum, the Government's plans for a museum of invention, rather than a patent museum, and a place to house the bones of the great whale recently purchased in Scotland.
Date
12th May 1864
Format
Manuscript
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DS/UK/45
Bowring; Edgar Alfred (1826-1911); Commission Secretary
1826-1911
DS/UK/46
Grey; Charles; General; Private Secretary to Prince Albert
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