Official Guide to the Kew Museums
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ISBN13: 9780217736350
Paperback|9780217736350
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 2 Origin Of The Museums. Origin Of The Museums. The foundation and progress of these unrivalled collections, not only by far the most extensive in existence, but the first of their kind established, may be briefly traced through the few years which have elapsed since the conception of their plan by the late Director of the Royal Gardens, Sir W. J. Hooker. In 1847 the building now occupied by Museum No. II., which up to that year had been in use as a fruit store-house, etc., was added, by command of Her Majesty, to the Botanic Garden proper. Permission was immediately sought by the Director to have one room of this building fitted up with suitable cases for the exhibition of vegetable products, ?objects which neither the living plants of the Garden, nor the preserved specimens of the Herbarium could show. Sir W. J. Hooker's request was liberally met by the Chief Commissioner of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests, and the Museum was forthwith commenced; its nucleus consisting of the Director's private collection, presented by himself. No sooner was the establishment and aim of the Museum generally made known, than contributions to it poured in from all quarters of the globe, until, in a few years, the ten rooms of the building, with its passages and corners, were absolutely crammed with specimens. Application was therefore made to Parliament by the Chief Commissioner, for a grant to defray the expense of an additional building for the proper accommodation of the objects, and the house occupied by Museum No. I. opened to the public in the spring of 1857, is the result. From the Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862, and from the Paris Exhibitions of 1855 and 1867, large additions were made to the collections, both by the liberal presentation of specimens (by Messrs. P. Lawson and ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217736350 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217736351 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $16.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 56 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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