272 Institutes, Museums, Libraries 



The collection is vast, and the Euston Road premises were capable of housing 

 only those sections of the Museum material which ouglit to be available for study 

 purposes. Material which was hkely to be used less frequently was put in store 

 elsewhere. 



As a result of great accommodation difficulties which have arisen directly as a 

 result of the war, major changes of policy and procedure have had to be adopted. 

 The headquarters of the Wellcome Historical Museum have been removed to 28, 

 Portman Square, London, W.l. which is now its final address. It is impracticable 

 in these premises to devote more than a small room for permanent exhibition pur- 

 poses, but it is hoped to permit of certain small sections of the Museum material 

 being seen by the public from time to time at contemporary exhibitions on subjects 

 which may be of interest at that particular time. For example, in October, 1946, 

 a special exhibition on the History of Anaesthesia was opened to commemorate the 

 centenary of Morton's operation. This exhibition covered the whole field and 

 continued until 1st January, 1947. At the request of the Officials of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Surgery which met in London from September 15th-20th the 

 Wellcome Museum put up an exhibition illustrating the History of Surgery. This 

 exhibition is in a gallery of the Science Museum at South Kensington which has 

 been lent by the Director of that museum for this purpose. The History of Surgery 

 Exhibition will remain open until February 1st. 



The Library of the Museum is very rich especially in the earlier periods. It 

 contains approximately 200,000 printed books. There are between 600 and 700 in- 

 cunabula, and most of the great works of the early periods are represented. 



For publications, see chapter 20, under Wellcome. 



Director: E. Ashworth Underwood. 



The Horniman Museum and Library (Forest Hill, London S.E.): 



Founded in 1890 by Frederick J. Horniman (1835-1906), tea merchant, and 

 presented by him to the London County Council in 1901. It is devoted mainly 

 to ethnology, archaeology, and zoology. Some of the ethnological collections are 

 oriented towards the study of early technology. 



Handbooks: From stone to steel; War and the Chase {2nd ed. 1929); Stages in 

 the evolution of domestic arts (2 parts, 2nd ed. 1924-25); Simple means of travel 

 and transport by land and water (1925), etc. 



This suggests that other ethnological museums might be consulted for the same 

 purposes. 



The Horniman Museum has also very interesting (but unpublished) collections 

 illustrating the superstitions of many peoples and many times (including our own). 



1905: The Warburg Institute, University of London (Imperial Institute Buildings, 



South Kensington, London S.W.7): 



Library and research institute founded in Hamburg by Aby Warburg ( 1866- 

 1929), for the study of the survival and revival of classic antiquity during the 

 Middle Ages, the Renaissance and later. The date of foundation is difficult to 

 determine, because what was originally Warburg's private library developed 

 gradually into a public institute. The date of foundation generally given by the 

 Institute itself is 1905, when Warburg's collecting became more systematic than it 

 had been. In 1921 the Hbrarian, Fritz Saxl, began a card index, as well as a 

 series of lectures and publications. The Institute was then called the Bibliothek 

 Warburg. It remained in possession of the Warburg family until 1933, when the 

 fear of Nazi persecution and confiscation caused its moving to Thames House, 

 London. It was moved to the Imperial Institute in 1937 and was incorporated in 

 London University in 1944. 



Fritz Saxl (1890-1948) was hbrarian since 1913; at the time of Warburg's 

 death (1929), Saxl became director. After Saxl's death. Dr. Gertrud Ring was 

 acting director; Henri Frankfort of Chicago became director in May 1949. 



For an account of the early years in Hamburg see Fritz Saxl in Forschungs- 

 institute (2, 355-62, 1930). When the Deutsche Gesellschaft fiir Geschichte der 

 Medizin usw, met in Hamburg in 1928 it visited the Bibfiothek Warburg. 



