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Resources for the History of Science in the Libraries of the British Museum (Natural History)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

R. E. R. Banks
R. E. R. Banks
Affiliation:
Department of Library Services, British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.
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Alfred Waterhouse's ornate Romanesque building at South Kensington, London, has contained the natural history collections of the British Museum since 1881. First opened to the public on Easter Monday, 18 April, in that year, the British Museum (Natural History) (BM(NH)) has become well-known for the excellence of its exhibition galleries, particularly for its dinosaurs, blue whale, and, more recently, for its revolutionary Hall of Human Biology.

Type
Collections XIV
Information
The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 1988 , pp. 91 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1988

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