Papers of 'The Museum Of ...' temporary museum project. The collection holds material from four of the five "museums" that together formed The Museum Of. These are: The Museum of Collectors, The Museum of Me, The Museum of Emotions and The Museum of the River Thames. The collection holds no records for The Museum of the Unknown.

The Museum of Collectors (Nov 1998 - Mar 1999): The Museum of Collectors looked at who collects, what people collect and why? It housed a display of forty-two local people's collections, everything from rejection letters and snow domes to snails and monsters. The collections were displayed in consultation with the collectors by an interdisciplinary team. The records held in the collection include: Glassine pockets containing items collected by visitors to the museum, photos and text relating to collectors exhibiting at the museum and advertising material.

The Museum of Me (May 1999 - Oct 1999): The Museum of Me combined art works that looked at the self with a chance for visitors to experience, record and display aspects of themselves as they travelled around the space. Responding to input from artists, poets, performers, psychologists, designers and anthropologists, each visitor was given the opportunity to contribute to the making of The Museum Of Me by creating their own personal museum exhibits during their visit. The records held in the collection include: Tin Cans containing items belonging to visitors, miniature glass bottles each containing a written "secret", large glass bottles containing multiple "secrets", a range of labels on which visitors wrote down various aspects of themselves and their experiences, black and white portrait photographs and a selection of emphemera including a promotional t-shirt and several diaries containing handwritten comments by visitors filled in about days that were important to them.

The Museum of Emotions (Feb 2000 - Jun 2000): The Museum of Emotions asked the question where and how do we express our emotions? Ten artists were commissioned to evoke different emotions through creating a series of interactive environments. An ephemeral experience created by light, sound and installation explored how much feeling is lost, found and expressed in the context of the museum. Records for this collection include: plastic bottles each labelled with a visitor's response to the question "What makes you cry?", a large hardback book containing visitors comments on the theme of love and a number of advertising leaflets.

The Museum of The River Thames (March 2001 - July 2001): The Museum of The River Thames focused on the River Thames as the largest public space in London. Creating a journey from the Bargehouse to the river and back again The Museum of the River Thames reflected on the experiences of those people and places, that told a story of their environment and personal relationship with the river. The Museum included collaboration with: The London Rivers Authority, The Thames Explorer Trust, The Millennium Bridge Trust, Platform and The Museum of London. The collections includes: Origami Boats made by visitors to the Museum, drawings and comments on possible uses for the space if the River Thames did not exist and a variety of objects found in the river.

The final series is entitled "Marketing and Administration" and this includes advertising material relating to all five of the "museums" and a press pack that sets out the aims and intentions of the project, detailing the nature of each "museum" and setting out how the projects developed and progressed.

Records of Cy Grant reflecting his career containing rich material for research themes around multi-ethnic minority arts on a national basis, an iconic career which saw stardom and fame across the world and across ethnic divides, wartime narratives, discourse on Black African Caribbean roots, culture and race relations.

Records consist of correspondence, notes, photographs and audio-visual material. Includes Cy Grant's records relating to his service as navigator in the Second World War, records of Drum Arts Centre Limited, records of Concord Festival Trust; his acting career including theatre and film posters and programmes, correspondence with agents and producers and fan mail; writing career including published books and draft manuscripts, campaigning, spirituality and health and personal papers including copy items from 1910.

Highlights in the collection include Cy Grant's Royal Air Force log book; fan-mail, studio and film stills photographs, and audio-visual material documenting Cy Grant's fame from his acting and singing, 1950s-1970s; minutes and papers of the Drum Arts Centre Limited London, 1970s documenting the establishment of a national centre for the arts of Black people and related Black Theatre Workshop; minutes and printed material documenting the Concord Festival Trust for which Cy Grant was Director overseeing 22 multicultural ethic arts festivals across Britain over four years between 1981-1985. Cy Grant's life is documented in his memoir 'Blackness and the Dreaming Soul' published in 2007 and his original drafts are contained in the collection alongside other writings.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: The collection was catalogued as part of a project funded by Heritage Lottery Fund titled 'Navigating the Dreams of an Icon: Remembering Cy Grant Through His Archive'. £79,800 was awarded by the Heritage Lottery Fund to the Cy Grant Trust. The Trust, London Metropolitan Archives and Windrush Foundation formed a partnership in 2015 to oversee the archive project which ran from April 2016-May 2017 including an exhibition, website and education pack as well as a series of events including a Finale on 18 February 2017 at London Metropolitan Archives.

Papers of the Department of Botany comprising: DF400 Botany Departmental correspondence;
DF401 Registers of Botany departmental correspondence;
DF402 Botany finance and accounts;
DF403 Botany Reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF404 Keeper of Botany's correspondence and papers;
DF405 Papers of the editors of the Journal of Botany;
DF406 Keeper of Botany's subject files;
DF407 Keeper of Botany's Staff Files and Official Diaries;
DF408 Botany Annual Reports of Progress;
DF409 Exhibitions in the Botany Gallery;
DF410 Biographical index by Britten, Boulger and Rendle, papers;
DF411 The Island of Mull (1978), data sheets, papers and correspondence;
DF412 Botany Departmental visitors' books;
DF413 Botany Acquisition and loan records;
DF414 Parcel Books;
DF415 Equipment Registers and Collecting Materials;
DF420 Correspondence and Papers of Antony Gepp;
DF421 Agal Section correspondence and papers;
DF422 Diatom Section correspondence and papers;
DF423 Lichen Section correspondence and papers;
DF424 Fern Section correspondence and papers;
DF425 Mycology Section correspondence and papers;
DF426 Cryptogamic Herbarium Visitors Books;
DF427 Cryptogamic Herbarium Accession Records;

DF440 General Herbarium Correspondence and Papers;
DF441 General Herbarium visitors books;
DF442 European Herbarium correspondence and papers;
DF443 European Herbarium visitors' books;
DF444 British Herbarium tract collection manuscripts;
DF445 British Herbarium, papers associated with plant collections;
DF460 Botany Library Accession Records;
DF461 Botany Librarian's correspondence.

Papers of the Department of Zoology comprising: DF200 Keeper of Zoology's correspondence and files;
DF201 Keeper of Zoology's out-letters;
DF202 Department of Zoology: Keeper's miscellaneous documents;
DF203 Keeper of Zoology's wartime papers and memoranda;
DF204 Registers and indexes of Zoology departmental correspondence;
DF205 Zoology Reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF206 Keeper of Zoology's subject files;
DF207 Zoology Departmental finance and accounts;
DF208 Keeper of Zoology's staff files and official diaries;
DF209 Zoology reports of progress, monthly and annual;
DF210 Keeper of Zoology's building and accommodation files;
DF211 Keeper of Zoology's publication files;
DF212 Keeper of Zoology's confidential files;
DF213 Keeper of Zoology's expedition files;
DF214 Keeper of Zoology's Great Barrier Reef Expedition files;
DF215 Keeper of Zoology's John Murray Expeditions files;
DF216 Zoology Acquisition, loan and exchange records;
DF217 Artwork for publication;
DF218 Zoology Accessions Registers;
DF219 Collection Catalogues;
DF220 Zoology Departmental Visitors Books;
DF230 Bird Section correspondence;
DF231 Vertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF232 Mammal Section correspondence;
DF233 Fish Section correspondence;
DF234 Osteology Section subject files;
DF235 Reptile Section correspondence;
DF250 Invertebrate Section correspondence and papers;
DF251 Invertebrate Section reports to Trustees and other official documents;
DF252 Crustacea Section correspondence;
DF253 Coelenterata Section correspondence;
DF254 Mollusca Section correspondence;
DF255 Arachnida Section correspondence;
DF256 Crustacea Section research papers;
DF257 Coelenterata Section research papers;
DF258 Coelenterata Section collection records;
DF259 Parasitic Worms Section correspondence;
DF260 Sponge Section correspondence;
DF261 Bryozoa Section correspondence;
DF262 Invertebrate sections visitors books;
DF263 Sponge Section, photographs and artwork for publication;
DF264 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section correspondence;
DF265 Annelida Section Correspondence and Papers;
DF266 Echinodermata and Protochordata Section research papers;
DF270 Zoology Library accession records;
DF271 Zoology Library correspondence and memoranda;
DF272 Zoology Library catalogues and related material.

Records of the Barbican Committee, Corporation of London, 1954-1998, including papers relating to the development and building of the Barbican complex, speeches, reports, committee papers, brochures, newsletters and concert programmes. Please note that access to some of the reports is restricted.

Records of the Museum of London, 1976-1993, including copies of "Flower of Cities All", the report of the Board of Governors of Museum of London; financial accounts; annual reports; guidebooks, brochures and exhibition catalogues.

Card index to material generated by or for Wellcome Historical Medical Museum staff held in Western manuscripts sequence. Formerly one alphabetical sequence of card, the index was rearranged during the cataloguing of that material and now forms 5 discrete blocks.

The collection is made up of papers belonging to the second headmaster of the school W.V. Wallace and his wife who also taught at the school. The papers include correspondence with the parents, a visitors book, exercise books and other material produced by the students, school newsletters and magazine, as well as papers and letters relating to the closure of the school in 1986. There is also a significant amount of photographs from the 1960s onwards showing various school events such as sports days, concerts, plays and other events.

Papers of John Thomas Quekett, [1840-1854], relating to his work as Conservator of the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, comprising diaries, 1840-1848, which include references to prominent microscopists of the time, such as Carpenter, West, Ross, Sowerby, and Smith of Smith and Beck; notebook, containing some sketches and including notes on experiments on frogs, 1841; ?draft catalogues of the Histological Series in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and catalogue of Pathology, [c1840-1860]; catalogue of Hewson's Preparations, [c1840-1860]; unpublished part of Quekett's catalogue of histological series; Lectures on Histology delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons 1852-1854 with annotations by Quekett; notes for lectures on histology delivered in the session 1853-1853, on the structure on the skeleton of vertebrate animals, with original drawings.

Papers of Edward Charles Hulme, Student in Human and Comparative Anatomy, 1846-1848, and George Robert Skinner, Student in Comparative Anatomy, 1849-1851, comprising a volume containing notes by Hulme relating to the dissections of various animals including Chimpanzee, Sciurus Vulgaris (Red Squirrel), Cynocephalus (Phillipine Flying Lemur), Wombat, Leopard, Ateles (Spider Monkey), Elephant, and Honduras Turkey, 1846-1848; also containing notes by Skinner relating to the dissections of various animals including Rhinoceros, Puff Adder, Ostrich, a malformed foetus, and Malayan Tapir; and notes by Skinner relating to compiling a manuscript catalogue in the Museum.

Papers of F G Parsons comprising a catalogue of Comparative Anatomy Specimens in the Museum at St Thomas's Hospital, Oct 15th 1892, containing annotated descriptions of specimens. In the back of the volume are notes and illustrations on human anatomy; file containing Parsons' notes on the ward names and their location within the hospital, 1934.
Artefacts comprise a three legged stool and two book ends made and decoratively carved by Parsons.

Correspondence and papers on discussions between the Royal Empire Society and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London University on the proposed creation of a Commonwealth Library Centre, Jan-Sep 1950.

Papers of Adolf Frankl, 1975-1990, relate to an art exhibition of Adolf Frankl's works and consist of correspondence, opening addresses, newspaper reviews and catalogues.

Records created or held by Dennis Berry while he was the Head of the Architecture department at Kingston School of Art/ Kingston College of Art/ Kingston Polytechnic (now Kingston University). Includes photographs, scrap books, notes on town plan exhibitions and projects, notes on curriculum and examinations, meeting minutes, diaries, leaflets and publications from the Architecture department, and posters for an Architecture talk 1959.

Photographs from Kingston University and its predcessor bodies including Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston Technical College, Kingston Institute of Technology, and Kingston School of Art/ Kingston College of Art. Covers a number of themes from the University's history including students and staff, buildings and campuses, sporting and social events, and special events.

Papers, 1926-1984, of Alan James Juby, relating to the development of anaesthesia and anaesthetic apparatus.

Records relating to Juby's career comprise typescript lease of premises at no 34 Devonshire Street, St Marylebone, London, to Arthur Charles King, 1926; typescript financial accounts of A Charles King Ltd, 1942, 1946; printed catalogue with illustrations of anaesthetic apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd, undated [mid-20th century]; typescript copy letter from I W Magill to the Editor of The Lancet, 1942, concerning A Charles King's inquiry in 1932 for rotameters for gas and oxygen rather than anaesthetic flowmeters then in use, and their subsequent adoption; records relating to patent specifications, including photographs of apparatus, for Juby's work for A Charles King and subsequently for the British Oxygen Company Ltd, for improvements in retaining devices for anaesthetic mouthpieces, 1929, a portable stand for gas cylinders, 1929, an instrument for introducing intra-tracheal catheters, 1929, improvements in endotracheal tubes, 1953, improvements in cuffed catheters, 1955, improvements in gas-administering apparatus, 1956, connectors for endotracheal tubes, 1959, and means for producing a spray of gas-entrained liquid, 1960.

Records relating to organisations comprise reports and notices of meetings, lectures and other events, 1937-1984, of organisations including the Royal Society of Medicine Section of Anaesthetists, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, the Royal College of Surgeons Faculty of Anaesthetists, and the British Oxygen Company Ltd; dinner menus (some with collected signatures) and other ephemera, 1955-1971, including photographs including British Oxygen Company events, 1956-1957, and undated menu belonging to A Charles King.

Other records comprise printed booklets, articles, brochures, leaflets, diagrams and typescripts, 1939-1976, on subjects in anaesthetics including equipment (including apparatus produced by A Charles King Ltd and the British Oxygen Company Ltd), the development of anaesthetic techniques and drugs, and the history of anaesthesia and eminent anaesthetists including printed Inventory of the A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus present to the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland by A Charles King March 6th 1953; copies of the K Bryn Thomas's article, 'The A Charles King Collection of early anaesthetic apparatus', Anaesthesia, vol xxv, no 4 (Oct 1970); and various British Standards, 1950-1970, on anaesthetic and other medical equipment.

The Library holds a collection of Bank Exhibition Announcements (1991-2000) which is a collection of flyers, cards and press releases produced by the artists' group Bank, to announce their exhibitions.

Records of the Library of the Geological Society, [1829]-2007, comprising:

Library accession registers, 1836-2006 [incomplete]; Catalogues and indexes to the Library collections, [1829]-1967; Library recommendations book, 1922-1939; Library ephemera, including greetings cards, newsletters and guides, [1970s]-2007; Correspondence of the Librarian, 1917-2001. [note: all series incomplete].

The collection consists of 242 boxes of files relating to the work of the British Council Fine Arts, later Visual Arts, Department. The majority of the files concern the exhibitions created by the department and the touring of exhibitions outside Britain and provide illustrations of the art works included(notably for the Venice and Sao Paulo bienials), press cuttings, correspondence and related papers.

The Hunter Family Album, early- mid 20th century, comprising a scrapbook containing material relating to John and William Hunter. Including photographs, postcards, letters, drawings, paintings, press cuttings, manuscript notes, and extracts from journals. Subjects covered include Long Calderwood, where William and John Hunter were born; memorial statues, burials and John Hunter's reinterment; attendance at lectures; information relating to their work and their museums; information relating to their places of residence, for example, Windmill Street, Leicester Square, and Earl's Court; and information about the Hunter family.

Papers of Lord Lee of Fareham, [1878-1954], notably papers relating to Lee's book Letters that Remain, including proofs for letters intended for the book, including from Lloyd-George, 1917, 1920; photographs of individuals for the book;

invitations to events and programmes, [1920s-1930s]; papers relating to speeches, [1915-1930s], comprising notes and texts, including speeches as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, [1919-1921]; for exhibition opening at Christie's, 1932; press cuttings and Parliamentary reports relating to speeches, printed copies of speeches, [1909-1936], including 'The Need for National Service', 1915, 'The War and After', 1918, 'Lessons of the War', 1936;

original and copy letters, [1894-1946] includingfrom Neville and Mrs Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Ramsay MacDonald, [1920s-1930s]; Winston and Clementine Churchill, 1945; Micheal Balcon, Kenneth Clark, Osbert Sitwell, [1939-1946], Nancy Astor, A J Balfour, Joseph Duveen, relating to the National Gallery and Courtauld Institute, David and Frances Lloyd-George, Field-Marshall Lord Haig, Rudyard Kipling, Ramsay MacDonald; Graham Sutherland, relating to a painting, 1940;
papers relating to Lee's military career, including reference from Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Kitson, 1897; letter concerning Lee, 1898; letter of introduction to Commanding Officers, 1899; letters of authority as Colonel, 1914; army pass, 1914; requisition for petrol and tyres, 1914; permit, 1915; agenda for artillery conference, 1916;
letters relating to Lee's appointment as Chairman of the Radium Commission, 1929, and copy Charter of Incorporation for the Commission; Declaration of Trust between Lord and Lady Lee and the Massey Foundation, 1940;
personal papers, [1878-1945], including passport, 1889; birth certificate, [1868], anecdotes, jokes, press cuttings, printed books and articles, journal, 1889; correspondence and leases of White Lodge, Richmond Park, 1928-1932; letter from Lloyd-George informing Lee of his viscountcy, 1922; letters of condolence to various people and obituaries, [1940s]; correspondence regarding Lee's will, 1945; obituary of Lord Lee, [1947];
papers relating to Chequers, 1917-1953, including abstract of Chequers Estate Act, 1917; articles, guide, 1921, press cuttings, 1920s; correspondence relating to Chequers, including the library, Chequers Trust, silver dessert service presented by Lee, 1938; cartoons by Sir Mark Sykes [of Chequers], [1917];
correspondence concerning pictures and silver, including sale, purchase, restoration work, and some photographs, [1922-1940], including with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1927-1928, British Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum, private dealers;
correspondence with Theodore Roosevelt, 1897-1918, and Edith Roosevelt, 1912-1945, including an album of selected letters, 1898-1906, including one labelled by Lee 'possibly Roosevelt's first letter as President', 1901; correspondence with Ethel Derby, [daughter of Roosevelt], [1917-1951];
photographs, [1890-1946], including of the Roosevelt family, the Lees, film stars taken during the Lees' visit to Hollywood, [1930s];

correspondence regarding the establishment of the Conway Hall, London, 1930-1931; correspondence with Thomas Sherrer Ross Boase; papers of Professor W G Constable; papers relating to the Lee Bequest; Harding Collection; Home House Trust; Wilkinson Bequest; MacColl, Panofsky, Ostrer and Samuel Courtauld correspondence; Pilgrim Trust grant for Corpus of English Medieval Paintings; Scientific Department; Summer course; Lee gift to Hart House; draft scheme for the establishment of art history teaching in UK; insurance papers; press cuttings, 1930-1934; speeches relating to the opening of the Courtauld gallery.

Papers of Hans Andreas Hammelmann, comprising working files, compiled [1950]-1969, arranged by artist, containing photographs of pictures, correspondence and articles, for the artists: David Allan, Peter Angelles, P Angier, William Austin, Antonio Baratti, Francis Barlow, Bernard Baron, Francesco Bartolozzi, Basire, Baumgarten, Anthony Benoist, Benoit, Thomas Bewick, George Bickham, Nicholas Blakey, François Boitard, Louis Philippe Boitard, Jacob Bonneau, F Boucher, Bowyer, Edward Francesco Burney, Charles Catton Jnr, Louis Cheron, J B Cipriani, B Cole, William Cole, John Collins, Collyer, Bartholomew Dandridge, Delacroix, John Devoto, Claude Dubosc, John Ellis, Paul Fourdrinier, Alexandre-Evariste Fragonard, Jean Honoré Fragonard, Fuseli (son), Henry Fuseli, John Gilpin, Sawrey Gilpin, Joseph Goupy, Hubert Gravelot, Simon Gribelin, Moses Griffith, Simon Grignion, Joseph Grisoni, Louis Du Guernier, Sir William Hamilton, Jonas Hanway, Francis Hayman, Joseph Highmore, William Hogarth, James Hulett, Walter Jackson, William Kent, Elisha Kirkall, Knapton, Marcellus Laroon, Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg, Thomas Major, J Marchant, Mercier, Conrad Metz, John Hamilton Mortimer, George Michael Moser, Johann Sebastian Muller, John Nixon, Pietro Antonio Novelli, Piazetta, John Pine, Arthur Pond, Ravenet, William Wynne Ryland, Paul Sandby, T Sandby, G Scotin, Robert Smirke, Stendhal, Thomas Stothard, John Sturt, Tardieu, Isaac Taylor, Sir James Thornhill, John Tinney, John Vanderbank, Van der Gucht family, Vivares, Samuel Wale, Anthony Walker, Antoine Watteau, John Webber, Richard Westall, George M Woodward, John Wootton, Thomas Worlidge;
photographs, photocopies and notes relating to eighteenth century book illustrations, compiled [1950]-1969; correspondence relating to specific artists and general matters, some with photographs and articles, 1950-1969, notably from the National Gallery of Scotland, 1950, Professor Lawrence Gowing, 1953, National Gallery of Ireland, 1969, Ashmolean Museum, 1959, 1966, British Museum, 1966, Bibliotheca Nacional, Madrid, 1968, Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1951, Courtauld Institute, Witt Library, 1952, Bodleian Library, 1952, Royal Library, Windsor, 1967, Ruskin Galleries, Isle of Wight, 1967, Lewis Walpole Library, Connecticut, 1969;
papers of T S R Boase, 1953-[1974], comprising printed articles, exhibition catalogues, correspondence and two card indices, one of eighteenth century artists and illustrators, and one of authors; original prints and autographs, 1740, 1780 and undated, notably six prints of paintings in Vauxhall Gardens by Francis Hayman; three letters with autographs, 1795-1931; miscellaneous items, [1950s-1960s], including card indices on eighteenth century illustrated books and literature, cuttings from catalogues, photographs of Hammelmann 's friends/family, Victorian book illustrations; general articles and publications, 1864-1969, some by Hammelmann.

Papers of Percy Moore Turner, 1905-1952, comprising folders relating to various artists and works of art including John Sell Cotman, John Berney Crome, Honoré Daumier Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Peter De Wint, Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Varin and Diego Velazquez, and museums including the Louvre, Paris; catalogues of pictures at Staunton Harold, 1922; an exhibition by Richard Parkes Bonington, 1937; Percy Moore Turner's collection of engravings, etchings, lithographs and other prints, 1951; correspondence relating to gift of pictures to the Louvre, 1947-1948, and P M Turner's estate, 1951-1952; photographs of paintings, undated, from the British Museum, Castle Museum, Norwich, National Gallery, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, and the Tate Gallery; newpaper cuttings, 1925-1950, including some relating to the Courtauld.

Papers relating to the Advisory Committee on Oriental Materials (ACOOM), 1982-1991, comprising Committee minutes and papers, 1988-1991; Annual Meetings minutes, 1988-1991; correspondence, 1987-1990, including administrative matters; Chairman's working papers, 1988-1991, including administrative arrangements and policy; Officers' correspondence and papers, 1982-1989; miscellaneous papers, 1987-1989, including papers relating to rules concerning ACOOM administration, answers to a questionnaire relating to conservation facilities for Oriental materials, and papers relating to the Union Catalogue of Asian Publications. Subjects covered by the papers also include a project on romanization systems and the future of SCONUL.

The collection contains the administrative papers of the Barbican Arts Group Trust including policy documents; minutes of meetings; financial records; property records; and artists' details. In addition, the collection includes a range of visual material showing artists and their work as well as printed publicity material for exhibitions. The Trust's outreach work is represented through a number of school packs and booklets.

Papers of Department of Palaeontology comprising:

DF100 Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence;
DF101 Registers of Palaeontology Departmental Correspondence;
DF102 Palaeontology Departmental Finance and Accounts;
DF103 Palaeontology Reports to Trustees and other Official Documents;
DF104 Palaeontology Reports of Progress, Monthly and Annual;
DF105 Palaeontology Acquisition, Loan and Exchange Correspondence and Papers;
DF106 Staff Files and Diaries;
DF107 Keeper of Palaeontology's subject files;
DF108 Palaeontology Departmental visitors books;
DF109 Publications correspondence and artwork;
DF110 Parcel books;
DF116 Correspondence and papers on Piltdown Man;
DF117 Palaeontology loan registers;
DF120 Early members of staff, correspondence and papers;
DF121 Fossil Reptilia Section: correspondence and papers;
DF122 Fossil Mollusca Section: correspondence and papers;
DF123 Fossil Echinodermata Section: correspondence and papers;
DF124 Fossil Brachiopoda Section: correspondence and papers;
DF125 Fossil and Recent Protozoa Section: correspondence and papers;
DF140 Anthropology Sub-Department correspondence;
DF141 Anthropology Sub-Department subject files;
DF142 Anthropology Sub-Department visitors books;
DF160 Palaeontology Library accessions;
DF161 Palaeontology Librarian's correspondence.

Correspondence of the Tring (natural history) Museum, 1890-1955.

Records of the Guildhall Library, comprising office files on various subjects including staff instructions for air raids, evacuation of books, manuscripts and artworks and their storage during World War Two, damage sustained during World War Two and the subsequent reconstruction of the Library, list of artworks destroyed during World War Two, Public Libraries Acts 1892-1919, maintenance, notable collections, inventory and valuation of furniture and fittings, duties of the librarians, staff entertainments including annual staff dinners, relevant byelaws, insurance policies, donations, deposits and bequests, Art Gallery bequests and deposits and guidebooks and brochures.

Also petition asking for longer evening opening hours, 1875; petition in favour of Sunday opening, 1879 and petition opposing Sunday opening, 1879.

Guildhall Museum accessions register, a list of the items that formed the permanent collection of the Guildhall Museum, giving the date of acquisition, accession number, and by what means acquired (eg.purchase etc), 1972.

Records of the Metropolitan Tower Construction Company, comprising minutes of General Meetings and minutes of Board Meetings.

A series of photographs taken of the Morgan Crucible buildings in Battersea prior to and during their demolition in 1978-1979. The photographs were mostly taken by Frederick Shaw. Also includes a framed photograph showing the staff members of Morgan Crucible's Work Council in 1949.

Records relating to the Geology Club of Kingston College of Technology, later Kingston Polytechnic. The club was established in 1951 and held regular meetings. Collection includes minute books of meetings, registers of attendance, newsletters, photographs and other items.

Thirteen photographs of Iris Murdoch at various points of her life, dating from the 1930s until the 1970s. These photographs were collected by Peter Conradi while researching his biography Iris Murdoch: A Life (2001).

Assorted documents relating to the Department of Architecture at Kingston College of Art/ Kingston Polytechnic collected by Dennis Berry, who was head of the department from 1966-1987. Includes meeting minutes, staff lists, prospectuses, academic plans, course accreditation submissions, town study reports and programmes from degree ceremonies.

Diary of Henry Cole,1858-1859, during which time he became sole secretary of the Department of Practical Art, established by the Board of Trade to capitalise on the success of the Great Exhibition by promoting the teaching of design for industry.

Archives of the Hayward Gallery (HG) comprising:

Files relating to the HG policy and administration, 1994-2003; files relating to HG exhibitions, 1987-2003; files relating to the Arts Council Collection exhibitions and National Touring Exhibitions, 1994-2003;

printed exhibition leaflets, 1987-2003; printed posters advertising HG exhibitions and National Touring Exhibitions, 1968-2003;

printed private view invitation cards for Arts Council exhibitions (ACGB-1994) (including HG and National Touring Exhibitions), 1968-2003;
printed guides to HG Exhibitions, 1979-2003; printed catalogues for Arts Council Collection Exhibitions, 1950-2003; printed catalogues for HG and National Touring Exhibitions (including some from CEMA) 1942-2003;

HG press releases, 1978-2003; press cuttings relating to exhibitions and the Gallery, 1968-2003;
photographs of Hayward exhibition installations, 1968-2003; and National Touring Exhibitions including the Arts Council Collection, 1975-2003.

Papers of Robert Henry Elliot, [1864-1936], reflect his specialisation in the field of ophthalmology and comprise original drawings, slides and catalogues. The collection notably includes hand drawn and coloured illustrations of diseases of the cornea and each is labelled with a diagnosis; slides, comprising 300 black and white photographs of patients with eye disorders and catalogues, including Catalogue of stereoscopic pictures, Government Ophthalmic Hospital, Madras, Elliot School of Ophthalmology (Government Press, Madras, 1932). Papers also include photographs of the original layout of display cases within the Elliot collection museum.

Museum Association Diploma thesis by Douglas G Glover entitled "Museum collections and records in Western Europe, as sources of information for research into the imperial Russian army", undated [c.1982]

Legal Records: Charters and Bylaws (1462) - date

Court and Council : Court of Assistants 1745-1827; Council 1827-date; Council in Committee 1963-1989; Revision committee 1981-1987; Nomination Committee 1934-1970; Annual Reports of Council 1884-date

Secretariat: Correspondence, arranged by subject c.1880-1983; Letterbooks 1810-1866, 1900-1925; General Purposes Committee 1808-1962; Joint Secretariat Committee 1961-1974

President: Committee of President and Vice President 1836-1855; Presidential Committee on Examinations 1985; Presidential Committee on the College's Educational Policies for the Future 1981-1982; Presidential Correspondence 1945-1948; President's Conversazione 1899-1934; President's newsletter 1967-1991

Museum: Board of Curators 1800-1844; Museum & Building Committee 1799-1814; Museum Committee 1844-1988; Hunterian Trustees 1805-present; Letter books 1800-1883; Museum Accounts 1800-1832; Annual Reports 1827-1946; Correspondence 1845-date; Special Collections Committee 1989; Donations Registers and Correspondence 1802-1967; Human Remains [archaeological Finds} 1907-1937; Visitors 1805-1989; Odontological Museum correspondence 1943-1989;

Building: Building Committee 1844-1966; Committee on Accommodation 1982; Committee on the Extension of the College Buildings 1885-1891; Furniture & Building 1966-1992; Hospitality & Catering Committee 1956-1988; House Committee 1944-1961; Building Estates Committee 1989-1992; Property Committee 1978-1982; Rebuilding of College 1946-1955; Plans for rebuilding 1957; Correspondence 1910-date, photographs 1880-date.

Examinations: Court of Examiners 1796 -1832; Registers 1745-1983; Committee of Management Conjoint Board 1884-1929; Letters books 1832-1865; Committee on Courses 1981-2; Working Party on Future of Examining Board In England 1972-1981

Membership: Signature books 1800-1970; Apprentices 1800-1846; Death Registers 1800-1889; Membership lists 1788-1970; Discipline Committee 1915-1955; Licentiate registers 1885-1898; Certificates 1850-1870; Register of Certificates 1821-1835

Fellowship; Fellowship Election Committee 1943-1975; Fellows Committee 1988-1999; Overseas Fellows Committee 1986-1989; Honorary Fellows 1900-1978; Fellows & Honorary Fellows photo albums 1840-1968;

Lectureships & Awards: Lectures & Orations 1810-1842; Erasmus Wilson Committee 1879; Jacksonian Lectureship Committee 1800-date; Prize & Medal Committee 1956-1987; Macloghlin Scholarship committee 1965-1975; Joseph Toynbee Memorial Lecture Committee 1988; Lionel College Memorial Fellowship Committee minutes 1982-1985; Norman Capener Travelling Fellowship Advisory Board 1981-1988; Ratanji Dalal Research Scholarship Committee 1963-1990; Tudor Edwards Memorial Fund Committee 1989; Walker Prize Committee 1956-1980; Windsor Prize Committee 1982

Publications: Transactions Committee 1841-1842; Annals Committee 1947-1989; Almanacks 1903-date

Annual Meetings: Annual & Provincial Meetings Committee 1965-1966;

External Affairs: External Affairs Board Minutes 1989-1992; International Relations Committee 1983;

Finance: Accounts 1745-1974 ; Committee of Auditors 1811-1888; Finance Committee 1888- 1977; Cashbooks 1887-1959; Finance & General Appeal Committee 1967-1972; Building Committee Accounts 1806-1838; College Chest 1978-1982; Committee on Income & Expenditure 1868

Fundraising: Appeals Committee 1956-1978; Restoration funds records 1945-1956

Library: Library Committee 1833-1989; Acquisitions 1833-1850; Letter book 1828-1851; Correspondence 1935-1965; Donations 1868-1957; Purchases 1887-1952; Visitors 1889-1946;Binding 1856-1951; Books Received 1839-1951; Periodicals Received 1881-1938; Binding 1951-1964

Media: Audio Visual Techniques Committee 1980-1982;

Surgical Specialities & Training: Examiners in Anatomy & Physiology Minutes 1880-1918 ; Examiners in Midwifery minutes 1852-1857; Board of Examiners In Dental Surgery 1860-1909; Board of Surgical Specialities 1976-1988; Committee on Higher Specialist Assessment in General Surgery 1984; Committee on Training of Surgeons later Surgical Training Board minutes 1959-1971; Courses & Lectureship Committee 1982; Committee on Courses 1981-1982; Special Advisory Committee on General Surgery 1978-1981; Surgical Teaching Films Committee 1985-1986; Joint Committee for Plastic Surgery, Postgraduate Orthopaedic Training 1948-1959; Postgraduate Education Committee 1947-1959

Research Laboratories Committee 1890-1905; Ethical or Research Ethics Committee 1974-1983; Hunterian Institute Board Minutes 1986-1989; Hunterian Institute Academic Advisory Committee 1986-1989; Institute of Basic Medical Research Correspondence & Minutes 1946-1983; Joint General Board 1966-1983; Joint Research Board 1975-1979; Museum & Research Committee 1937-1974; Research Establishment at Downe Management Committee minutes 1974-1977; Research Grants & Development Committee 1979-1985; Research Ethics Committee 1985-1992; Streatfield & MacKenzie Mackinnon Research Fund Committee 1989; Anatomy Correspondence 1948-1980

Club College Council Club minutes, photographs, correspondence 1931-date

Dinner: Hunterian Festival programmes 1881-1975; Buckston Browne 1928-1956

War: Committee of Reference 1916-1919

Papers of Sir Richard Owen, [1831-1873], comprising papers relating to his scientific research and as Curator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Papers largely relating to Owens' research and publications, including work on specimens of the Hunterian Museum and other institutions, namely original illustrations for plates published in his works and proof sheets; notes of dissections performed at the Zoological Society; report of preparations in comparative anatomy from animals which have died at the Zoological Gardens, 1831; report on the dugong received by the Zoological Society, 1831; paper on metamorphosis of insects; notes and sketch on python and boa; papers relating to a variety of subjects, including temporal mastoid-mammals; viscera and muscles of the myrmecophaga jubata (anteater); distinction of an animal from a vegetable; animal kingdom; order ophidia; serpents from British Fossil Reptiles, [c1850s]; list of 'Mr Cumming's Mollusca'; notes on birds closest in structure to mammalia; classified list of D Bennet esq's specimens of natural history, [1836]; notes on the hyoid, with sketches on the salamander; illustrations of cetacea; notes on the fore-foot, megatherium (giant sloth); loose notes on generation; notes on homologies; plates and notes on histology of animals; description of a malformed foetal heart; notes on composition of vertebral segments; notes on the dermo-skeleton, operculum and of a lecture on digestion; notes on belemites; memoranda on various subjects, including harpa ventricosa and Ehrenberg's classification with letters from naturalists; description of the skeleton of an extinct gigantic sloth, [c1842], and megatherium; report of preparations in comparative anatomy from animals which have died at the Zoological Gardens; report on the dugong received by the Zoological Society, 1831; notes on the giraffe, 1837; notes and sketches on a dugong, 1838; notes on the incubation and development of the chick; notes and plates on odontography, 1844; printed papers on Dinornis maximus (moa), with annotations by Owen, 1848-1851; memoir of William Clift, [c1850]; report on the dissection of the chimpanzee, 1844; notes taken at the Garden of Plants, Paris, 1847;

papers largely relating to the administration of the museum collection, namely lists of specimens, additions to the collection from other collections and reports to the Board of Curators of the Museum, including list of Hunterian documents handed by Owen to the Museum Committee; list of duplicate specimens in the College; selection from the collection of M Verraux; report to the Board of Curators, 1833; report on the present state of the museum, 1833; list of second selection of specimens from Mr Langstaff's collection, 1835; list of preparations in spirit presented by F D Bennett, 1836; donations from the Army Medical Departments; donations since July [1843]; report on duties of officers and servants of the Museum, 1852; plans for additional museum space, 1831; report to the Board of Curators on the Museum of Comparative Anatomy in the Garden of Plants, Paris, 1831; observations on the state of the College Museum, 1833; general account of specimens of comparative anatomy and natural history presented to the Museum by George Bennett, 1834; list of specimens proposed to be transferred to the British Museum and specimens of osteology proposed in place of the transfers, 1833-1834; report to the Committee on the chimpanzee, and copies of related correspondence, 1840; report on the physiological catalogue, 1840; list of duplicate preparations from the museum of Sir Astley Cooper not desirable for the College Museum, 1843; list of specimens selected for the College from Dr Buckland's series of bones of dinornis, 1844; report on additional space required for the collection, 1845; list of osteological specimens purchased at Steven's Auction Room, 1847; list of donations from Sir Thomas W Wilson, 1852;

papers relating to catalogues of the Hunterian Museum, including sketches and notes for an osteological catalogue, [?1840s]; notes and classifications referring to specimens in the Museum, [1827-1856]; Catalogue of Hunterian Osteological specimens, [?1853]; notes made whilst producing the catalogue of comparative anatomy, ?1831; printed histological catalogue of the Museum, with annotations, 1850; papers prepared for publication of descriptive catalogue of the fossil organic remains of invertebrata in the museum, 1856;

papers relating to the Hunterian lectures delivered by Owen at the College, including museum lectures on the animal kingdom, (Owen's first course of Museum lectures) c1837; notes for lectures delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, 1830s-1850s; memorandum concerning Museum lectures, 1823-1833; lecture on the comparative anatomy and physiology of the vertebrate animals, 1844; notes, plates and drawings relating to mammalia and Owen's lecture, 1844;

notes taken by William W Cooper on lectures on comparative anatomy delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1838-1839, revised and corrected by Owen; notes on lectures on comparative anatomy delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1837, in Clift's hand; notes taken by T E Bryant on Owen's lectures on comparative anatomy, 1839; notes taken by Frederick Hoare Colt on lectures on physiology and morbid anatomy by Owen, 1845; Lady Owen's common-place book, [c1835-1873].

The collection comprises manuscript notebooks, printed pamphlets, correspondence, a minute book, and photographic and other catalogues, 1768-1970. These notably include notebooks containing descriptions and viewing data relating to astronomical observations carried out at Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, on behalf of King George III, with a printed pamphlet by Nevil Maskelyne, Astronomer Royal, entitled Observations of the transit of Venus over the Sun, 1768-1769; manuscript notebook containing measurements recorded during a test of the accuracy of the H5 chronometer designed by John Harrison, 1772; manuscript notebooks recording daily temperature, barometric, hygrometric and rainfall readings taken at Kew Observatory, Richmond, Surrey, 1773-1840; a printed pamphlet by George Atwood, Fellow of the Royal Society, entitled A Supplement to 'A treatise on the construction and properties of arches' (London, 1804), with manuscript dedication to King George III and related correspondence, 1804-1805; a folio signature book of visits by dignitaries to the George III Museum, 1843-1929; manuscript diary describing the work of the George III Museum including the upkeep of equipment and use of exhibits in experiments, 1850-1880; manuscript minutes of the George III Museum Committee charged with managing the collection, 1880-1885; catalogues relating to the collection, [1841-1970]; correspondence by George Calver, astronomer, relating to telescope design, 1897; series of copper plates and labels advertising the George III Museum, [1841-1926].

Papers, 1934-1987, created and accumulated by Dr David J Wilkinson and relating to A Charles King, comprising correspondence and other papers, 1982-1987, on King, including biographical information on his education, army service with the London Rifle Brigade in World War One, and career as an anaesthetic instrument maker; earlier correspondence relating to the King Collection at the Association of Anaesthetists, 1963-1964; copies of articles on King, 1934-1987, and typescript inventory of the collection; King's bookplate, undated, and envelope of his business, 1934.

The National Gallery Archive holds the administrative records of the National Gallery, including: Board minutes, 19th century correspondence, annual reports, 20th century registry files, late 20th century departmental records, accounts, art historical dossiers, photographs and press cuttings.

Papers of John Howship, 1799-1805, comprising a volume of manuscript notes by Howship, titled John Howship March the 8th 1799, taken at physiological lectures by Matthew Baillie, lectures by William Cruikshank, and including notes on dissections and cases, 1799-1805; a volume of manuscript notes by Howship, titled John Howship October 1799, taken at lectures by William Cruikshank, Sir Everard Home, Mr Crichton, and Mr Wilson, including notes of John Heaviside's cases, 1799-1803; a manuscript copy by Howship, of Matthew Baillie's Morbid Anatomy, including detailed drawings of the plates; and a list titled Mr Howship's Preparations, made by William Augustus Hillman of preparations purchased at Howship's museum and descriptions taken from Howship's catalogue.

Papers of Sir Augustus Wall Callcott, 1786-1837, comprising travel journals and papers largely from Callcott's honeymoon in Europe in 1827-1828, notably including lists, descriptions and sketches of pictures from various art collections visited in Italy, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia.

Correspondence and papers, 1912-1928, on the School of Oriental Studies (later School of Oriental and African Studies) Library book exchange, relating to arrangements concerning the disposition of books on Oriental studies between the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, King's College London, University College London, the Institute of Historical Research, India Office, and London Institution, including some named collections or items, among them the collections of Robert Morrison and William Marsden.

Minute book of the Barbican Arts Centre Joint Working Party, Court of Common Council, 1968-1970. The Working Party was concerned with planning matters which would lead to the successful operation of the Barbican Arts Centre. They co-ordinated with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the London Symphony Orchestra, dealt with public relations matters to do with the Centre, the appointment of technical and management consultants, and the appointment of the Centre's first Manager, Henry Wrong.

Records of the Barbican Development Committee, Court of Common Council, comprising minutes, 1957-1983. Please note some of these records are closed.

The Committee's minute books contain administrative records of the oversight of the project. In common with all Corporation of London Committees, the minute books contain records only of decisions taken, and not details of arguments or debates which led to those decisions.

Rough minute books of the Barbican Contracts Working Party, Court of Common Council, 1982-1986. The minute books are closed until 2017.

The Working Party and then the Sub Committee administered the litigation relating to the Corporation's post-Second World War redevelopment of the Barbican Estate in the City of London 1981-1986, and in particular dealt with litigation and accounts for Phase V of the scheme (the Barbican Arts Centre).

Records of the Museum of London Board of Governors, Court of Common Council, including minutes, 1961-1997 and letter books, 1962-1998. Please note that records 1975 onwards are closed.