| Description | Manuscript and typescript letters and memorandums, printed documents and press cuttings regarding interactions between Kew and the South Kensington Museum, Science and Art Department, including the transfer of specimens and exhibits, and the supply of plants for botanical and art teaching purposes. Includes frequent manuscript letters and notes by Joseph Hooker, Thiselton-Dyer, Prain, Hill and Daniel Morris.
Volume includes sections on the following subjects:
---- Science and Art Department 1868 ----
(F1) Letter requesting attendance figures for Kew Gardens for 1866 and 1867.
-- International Exhibition, 1872 --
(Ff2-33) Papers regarding a proposed hot house for cotton plants, exhibits of cotton and cotton fabrics, mulberry and 'other trees among which the silk worm feeds', and silk and velvet fabrics. Includes letters from Joseph Hooker to Major General Henry Scott.
-- Loan/ Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus --
(Ff48-72) Papers regarding 'Special Loan Exhibition of Philosophical Instruments' and 'Loan Exhibition of Scientific Apparatus'.
---- Adminstration and cost of museum ----
(Ff73-88) Printed document, 'Observations on the Second Report From the Select Committee on the Museums of the Department of Science and Art, 1898'.
-- Pruning Plane trees --
(F89-91) Papers regarding the pollarding of plane trees outside the Victoria and Albert Museum, with reply from Prain.
-- Field of museums --
(Ff92-115) Papers regarding the coverage of fields such as agriculture and forestry in science and geological museums. Includes letters from J G Ogilvie, Science Museum, to Prain, and typescript 'Report on the Agricultural Section of the Collections by Mr T H Middleton of the Board of Agriculture', and Committee on the Science and Geological Museums, 'The scope and possibilities of the Museums of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew'.
-- Reports --
(Ff116-160) Printed reports comprising:
- DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENCE MUSEUM [ETC]. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENCE MUSEUM AND THE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM. (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1911)
- DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENCE MUSEUM [ETC]. REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE SCIENCE MUSEUM AND THE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM (PART II.). (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1912) [includes plans as appendices].
---- Royal College of Science report ----
(Ff141-160) Printed report, titled:
- FINAL REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENTAL COMMITTEE ON THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE, ETC. VOL. I. FINAL REPORT WITH APPENDIX I. (London: Wyman and Sons Limited, for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906).
---- Employment of Kew Officers ----
(Ff161-179) Papers regarding Thiselton-Dyer giving botanical lectures at South Kensington, and John Gilbert Baker as Assistant Examiner in Elementary Botany. With notes by Joseph Hooker.
---- Normal School of Science; Botany Course; supply of specimens; examinations ----
(Ff180-219) Papers regarding the supply of specimens for the Normal School of Science, including Thiselton-Dyer's botanical course, and the admission of students to the Jodrell Laboratory, and a proposed building at Kew for botanical students. Includes manuscript drafts by Joseph Hooker, and letters by D H Scott.
---- Science [and] Art Department presentations ----
(Ff220-240) Papers regarding presentations of specimens and exhibits to Kew, including the 'Tahiti collection' presented by the Duke of Edinburgh. Includes correspondence regarding the Bethnal Green Branch Museum, and letter from Edgar A Bowring.
-- Supply of Plants --
(Ff241-277) Papers regarding supplying the National Art Training School with plants, and admitting art students to Kew. Includes letter from William Hooker, and letters from A I R Trendall.
---- South Kensington Museum; Bethnal Green ----
-- Transfers from Kew --
(Ff278-302) Papers regarding transfer of specimens and exhibits to South Kensington Museum and Bethnal Green Branch Museum, including note by John Reader Jackson and letters regarding a broken actinometer.
-- Food Collections --
(Ff303-327) Papers regarding the transfer of food specimens and exhibits from Kew, including Japanese food products, and wasps and hornet nests.
-- Economic Entomology --
(Ff328-383) Papers regarding the Economic Entomology Collection at Bethnal Green Museum, and the position of Thiselton-Dyer on the Committee of Reference for Economic Entomology for the Council on Education. Includes letters from Eleanor A Ormerod, J F D Donnelly and Marshall Ward. Includes printed document 'Remarks on Mr Thiselton Dyer's Letter to Mr Spottiswoode on the Subject of a Museum of Vegetable Pathology', and papers regarding the proceedings of the Committee of Advice and Reference on the Economic Entomology Collections.
Volume also contains (ff34-47) papers regarding a School of Science at South Kensington, proposing Thomas Huxley as Principal or Dean. Includes letter from Hooker to Lord Aberdeen, and letters from Professor [Robert James] Shuttleworth to Hooker. |