Some Recently acquired Reliefs in the British Museum

Some Comments on “Drehem Tablets” in the British Museum

§1.1. Th ere have not been any archaeological excavations at Drehem and all of the tablets that are currently in collections were dug up unoffi cially and sold on the antiquities market. As a consequence, there is inevitably some uncertainty about the provenience of these tablets. Jones states that the Drehem fi nd was made, “presumably in 1909, but possibly as early as 1908. Th e discovery was...

Taking the British Golf Museum Home

Over the last two and half years, I have been in the unique position helping to create CD-I discs while at the same time, I was the first end-user of CD-I in the United Kingdom. From the onset, it was always our intention to make a consumer disc as well as the museum discs, but it was a secondary consideration. Our first objective was to finish and open the British Golf Museum and then take thi...

The British Museum of Natural History.

Well, someone can decide by themselves what they want to do and need to do but sometimes, that kind of person will need some the british museum of natural history references. People with open minded will always try to seek for the new things and information from many sources. On the contrary, people with closed mind will always think that they can do it by their principals. So, what kind of per...

Illustrations from the Wellcome Institute Library. Some recently acquired papers of Robert Whytt (1714-1766), FRS.

In November 1991, the Western Manuscripts Department of the Wellcome Institute was offered, and subsequently purchased, a collection of manuscripts which had belonged to the eighteenth-century Scottish physiologist and clinician Robert Whytt. The contents of a single cardboard box were unpacked and examined with some excitement. Here were primary materials on all aspects ofWhytt's career, where...

The Memory Machine : sound and memory at the British Museum