PDF plus While much critical attention has been paid to the British Museum's early collections of natural history, less has been made of the way in which the items were catalogued and recorded. This paper will examine how information was organized within the Museum from its inception in 1753 to 1836, following the publication of the second Report from the Select Committee on the condition, management and affairs of the British Museum. Drawing on the Museum's avian collections as a case study, it will become apparent that while the Trustees and staff recognized the need for detailed catalogues of their natural history collections, their attention and resources were diverted from this task for various reasons during the early years of the Museum.
...More
Article
Elena Canadelli;
(2016)
Marble Busts and Fish Fossils: The Catalog of the Museum of naturalia and artificialia at the University of Padua (1797)
(/isis/citation/CBB561990879/)
Book
Longair, Sarah;
McAleer, John;
(2012)
Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
(/isis/citation/CBB001201464/)
Article
Murphy, Kathleen S.;
(2013)
Collecting Slave Traders: James Petiver, Natural History, and the British Slave Trade
(/isis/citation/CBB001320636/)
Chapter
Maria Toscano;
(2017)
Giuseppe Saverio Poli as a Collector between Natural History and Antiquarianism
(/isis/citation/CBB463592702/)
Article
Wheeler, Alwyne;
(2000)
The zoological collections of the British Museum (Natural History) evacuation of the collections during the war years 1939--1945
(/isis/citation/CBB000111933/)
Article
Beer, Liang de;
(2014)
Voor iedere vriend van de wetenschap. Het publiek van het naturaliënkabinet van de Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen in de jaren 1772--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB001321075/)
Book
Susanne Köstering;
(2018)
Ein Museum für Weltnatur: Die Geschichte des Naturhistorischen Museums in Hamburg
(/isis/citation/CBB080940339/)
Article
Goldgar, Anne;
(2000)
The British Museum and the Virtual Representation of Culture in the Eighteenth Century
(/isis/citation/CBB000111573/)
Chapter
Fyfe, Aileen;
(2007)
Reading Natural History at the British Museum and the Pictorial Museum
(/isis/citation/CBB000773406/)
Book
Florence Fearrington;
Mark D. Tomasko;
(2022)
Rooms of Wonder: From Wunderkammer to Museum, 1599–1899
(/isis/citation/CBB174307650/)
Book
Bennett, James A.;
Johnston, S. A.;
Simcock, A. V.;
(2000)
Solomon's House in Oxford. New Finds from the First Museum
(/isis/citation/CBB000102407/)
Article
Podgorny, Irina;
(2013)
Travelling Museums and Itinerant Collections in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
(/isis/citation/CBB001421588/)
Article
Plumb, Christopher;
(2010)
“In Fact, One Cannot See It without Laughing”: The Spectacle of the Kangaroo in London, 1770--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB001022479/)
Article
Plumb, Christopher;
(2010)
“Strange and Wonderful”: Encountering the Elephant in Britain, 1675--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB001032697/)
Article
Digby, Susan A.;
(2008)
Early Twentieth-Century Collection of Extinct Mammals from Northern Siberia: The Provenance of Bassett Digby's Contributions to the Natural History Museum, London, and the British Museum
(/isis/citation/CBB000931208/)
Article
Martinez, Paulo Henrique;
(2012)
A nação pela pedra: coleções de paleontologia no Brasil, 1836--1844
(/isis/citation/CBB001420610/)
Article
Schmutzer, Kurt;
(2012)
Metamorphosis between Field and Museum: Collections in the Making
(/isis/citation/CBB001210371/)
Article
Kröger, Björn;
(2011)
Über Museen der Naturgeschichte und ihren Zweck. Ein Vortrag gehalten von Leopold von Buch (1774--1853) im April 1838
(/isis/citation/CBB001220465/)
Chapter
Ashley J. Inglehart;
(2018)
Filippo Buonanni and the Kircher Museum
(/isis/citation/CBB074439858/)
Book
Alberti, Samuel J. M. M.;
Hallam, Elizabeth;
(2013)
Medical Museums: Past, Present, Future
(/isis/citation/CBB001202341/)
Be the first to comment!