Folder of material relating to new buidlings for the Science Museum

CORP/SCM/Z/188/14

1911 - 1912

Board of Education, Whitehall case file - Name of case is crossed out. Contents listed on the front of the file reads "Discussions, Reports of Cttes, etc 1911-1912". - Document number Cd. 5673: Copy of Further Correspondence and Memoranda on the Subject of the Provision of a Site for a New Science Museum at South Kensington (In continuation of Cd. 5650). Correspondence dated 25 June 1910 to 6 April 1911. (2copies) - Document number Cd. 5650: Copy of Correspondence between The First Commissioner of Works and The Trustees of the British Museum on the subject of the Provision of a Site for a New Science Museum at South Kensington. Correspondence dates from 23 June 1910 to 6 April 1911. (3 copies) - Letter from scientific community (hundreds of signatories) to Rt Hon Walter Runciman, MP and President of the Board of Education, calling for the establishment of a Science Museum. (3 copies, 1 covered in handwritten notes, 1 nestled inside another) One copy includes a cover sheet sent to an unknown recipient, inviting 11 named scientists to sign the letter. - Report on "The Spirit Museum of the Natural History Museum in relation to the Site of the Science Museum". Includes colour-coded site plan. - Minutes of the Seventeenth Meeting on 24 July 1911 of the Committee on the Science and Geological Museums. - Extract from the Minutes of Sixteenth Meeting, 14 June 1911 - correspondence relating to the approval of the plans for the Science Museum and noting objections to it. - Minutes of the Sixteenth Meeting of 22 March 1911 of the Committee on the Science and Geological Museums. - Confidential memorandum from the Committee on the Science and Geological Museums, regarding negotiations with the Authorities of the British Museum about the South Kensington site. - Letter dated 16 June 1911 to F. G. Ogilvie from two surveyors regarding fire risk. - Minutes of the Eighteenth Meeting on 1 November 1911 of the Committee on the Science and Geological Museums. - Committee on the Science and Geological Museums Memo No. 26. Summary of the Committee's views on points under consideration at 1 November 1911 meeting. Front cover of the folder is detached.

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English

Science Museum, London

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