346 Minerals. 



the foreign specimens, and directly comparable with them. In 

 1834 the exhibited specimens occupied sixty-one table-tops, each 

 of them half the size of the long cases in the present gallery. 



On the completion of the new building the minerals were 

 transferred to, and re-arranged in, the rooms on its northern 

 side (1838-44), where they remained till the removal to South 

 Kensington in 1880. 



After his promotion to the keepership of Natural History in 

 1813, the general demands upon Mr. Konig were so great that 

 only a comparatively small portion of his time could be given 

 to the Mineral Collection, especially in later years ; it was 

 virtually impossible for him to do any mineralogical work other 

 than that involved in the comparison, selection, registration, 

 arrangement and labelling of the specimens. 



1851-57. 



^Keeper of Minerals (including Fossils), 

 George Robert Waterhouse, F.R.S. 



During the interval 1851-57, Mr. G. R. Waterhouse, F.R.S., 

 palaeontologist, was keeper of the composite department. 



As already mentioned, Mr. Konig, during his forty-four years 

 of office, had been the only member of the staff directly concerned 

 with the care of the Mineral Collection; after his death in 1851, 

 none of his colleagues was specially qualified to develope the 

 mineralogical section of the composite department ; their interests 

 had been, and remained, entirely palseontological. It thus came 

 about that for six years after Mr. Konig's death there was no 

 mineralogist at all on the Museum staff. 



1857-80. 



Keeper of Minerals, 



Mervin Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne, M.A., F.R.S. 

 Assistants. 



Thomas Davies 1862 > 



Viktor von Lang, Ph.D 1862-64 



Walter Flight, D.Sc., F.B.S 1867-> 



William James Lewis, M.A 1875-77 



Lazarus Fletcher, M.A., F.R.S 1878-80 



In 1857 the Trustees were enabled to bring the unsatis- 

 factory state of affairs to an end. In that year new arrangements 



