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ing those of the old Royal Naval Museum and those made and given by Sir James 

 Cairo. The Queen's House was restored to the condition in which Charles I had 

 finished it for Henrietta Maria in 1635. The Museum was formally inaugurated 

 on 27 April 1937, 



Much in the Museum concerns naval history, yet there is also every kind of object 

 illustrating maritime life in all its aspects. There are many instruments and tools 

 needed for navigation, astrolabes, quadrants, sextants, etc. and also chronometers, 

 from the earliest ones made by John Harrison (1693-1776). 



Greenwich Palace. A history of what is now the Royal Naval College and the 

 National Maritime Museum from earliest times to 1939 (quarto 50 p., 10 pi.) 



Rupert Thomas Go\jld: The marine chronometer (303 p., 39 pi., 85 fig. London 

 1923; Isis 6, 122-29); John Harrison and his timekeepers (Mariner's mirror 21, 

 1935; 24 pi., 9 pi.). 



National Maritime Museum. Catalogue (260 p., ill., 1937). 



Wren Society (vol. 6, 1930; Isis 15, 239). The Wren Society was founded in 

 England to reproduce architectural drawings and other documents concerning Sir 

 Christopher Wren (1632-1723); its first volume appeared in 1924 (Isis 8, 553). 

 Vol. 6 deals with the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich 1674-1728. 



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Science Museum (South Kensington ) : 



The Museum was founded in 1853 but remained until 1909 a department of the 

 Victoria and Albert Museum. It is the "national museum of science and its applica- 

 tions to industry." It is one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. 



Its publications are very numerous and there is no complete list of them. The 

 mimeographed lists (themselves very long) mention only the items which are still 

 available. 



The exhibits have been described in a series of handbooks and descriptive cata- 

 logues, such as Chemistry (1937, reprinted 1947), Mechanical road vehicles (1936), 

 Pumping machinery (1932-33), Railway locomotives and rolling stock (1931, 

 reprinted 1947), Sailing ships (1932), Time measurement, etc. 



In addition, there are many special publications such as H. T. Pledge: Science 

 since 1500 ( 1939; reprinted 1946; Isis 33, 74), and the Annual reports, photographic 

 prints, postcards, photographs and lantern sfides. 



Director since 1950, F. Sherwood Taylor. 



1800: Royal College of Surgeons: 



The present building on the S. side of Lincoln's Inn Fields was erected in 1835. 

 The collections are mainly anatomical, anthropological, and pathological but some 

 concern more directly the historian of science. These are gathered mainly in the 

 Historical Room, the Instrument Room and the Library. 



Charles John Samuel Thompson (1862-1943): Guide to the surgical instru- 

 ments and objects in the historical series (92 p., London 1930; Isis 16, 570). 



The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: 



At the turn of the century Sir Henry Wellcome (1854-1936) began to collect 

 books and objects of every kind illustrating any and every aspect of medical history. 

 At the time of the International Congress of medicine which took place in London 

 in 1913 and included a section devoted to the history of medicine he was persuaded 

 to exhibit a part of his immense treasures. The exhibition was remarkably success- 

 ful, and Sir Henry was later induced to put up the material in the form of a small 

 permanent introductory collection. He obtained premises for this purpose at Wig- 

 more Street, and this remained the headquarters of the Museum until 1932 when 

 the collection was removed to new premises in Euston Road. This fine building was 

 built essentially for the accomodation of a few of Sir Henry Wellcome's scientific 

 interests. It was hoped that the permanent collection would be exhibited on three 

 floors, comprising ten large galleries. Before the war and after it ceased, work 

 proceeded on the setting up of these galleries but rather slowly as a great deal of 

 research was entailed. 



