A 'philosophical storehouse' : the life and afterlife of the Royal Society's repository
In June 1781, the Royal Society’s repository was transferred to the British Museum. Though ostensibly as a result of the limited space in the Royal Society’s purpose-built accommodation at Somerset House, the Society were perhaps also a little relieved to relinquish a collection that had proved to b...
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Queen Mary, University of London
2009
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.509736 |