Origin and Development

Correspondence, minutes and memoranda on arrangements for building and maintaining the Educational Collection at South Kensington and subsequent development and classification of Science Collections. Papers relating to the needs of a Museum of Science including copy of a Memorial by President of the Royal Society and others, offer by 1851 Exhibition Commissioners to erect building, proposed guarantee fund to purchase scientific apparatus etc., 1881 Committee on the Science Collections. Copy of memorandum by Sir Robert Morant on history of the South Kensington Museum.