| Description | Manuscript correspondence, press cuttings and printed documents, including printed map, 'Ground Plan of the Main Building and Exhibition Gallery', and printed images of the Institute. Includes correspondence between Thiselton-Dyer and the India Institute, including J R Royle, Sir Frederick Abel, A Godley, [?George] Birdwood and others, relating to the Imperial Institute, and Thiselton-Dyer's involvement as a representative of India in the Institute's governing body, sending specimens of timber from Kew, and a memorandum regarding 'letter wood'. Includes printed interview with Sir J R Somers Vine in COMMERCE.
Printed material includes:
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA, AND THE ISLES OF THE BRITISH SEAS. REPORT OF THE LATE ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA. REGULATIONS FOR THE ADMISSION OF FELLOWS. LIST OF FELLOWS, 1891
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. REPORT OF PROGRESS FROM THE DATE OF ITS ESTABLISHMENT, TO THE 26TH NOVEMBER, 1892. (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1892)
- THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA. (London: William Clowes and Sons Limited)
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, THE COLONIES AND INDIA. (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited) including charter of incorporation, 12 May 1888
- IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1893. (London: Waterlow and Sons Limited, 1893)
- Wyndham R Dunstan, THE SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE (London: 1896)
- INDIAN SECTION, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. PRELIMINARY LIST OF SPECIMENS OF PRODUCTS CONTAINED IN THE COLLECTION. GROUP F. - DYES AND TANS (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1900)
- INDIAN SECTION, IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. PRELIMINARY LIST OF SPECIMENS OF PRODUCTS CONTAINED IN THE COLLECTION. GROUP B. - OIL-SEEDS AND OILS (INCLUDING SUBSTANCES USED IN MANUFACTURE OF SOAP AND PERFUMERY) (London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, 1901). |