General Guide to the Collections

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H.M. Stationery Office, 1914 - Art - 108 pages
 

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Page 107 - IN WITNESS whereof we have caused these our Letters to be made Patent. WITNESS ourself at our Palace at Westminster, this Second day of November, in the 12th year of our Reign. By Writ of Privy Seal, EDMUNDS, ( LS SUPPLEMENTAL CHARTER FEBRUARY 10TH, 1920 THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY.
Page 19 - Germany at the end of the Middle Ages. We leave out of our consideration those territories which at the end of the fourteenth and the beginning of the fifteenth century...
Page 107 - President of Our Most Honourable Privy Council for the time being, and the Vice-President of the Committee on Education of Our Most Honourable Privy Council for the time being shall be a body corporate under the name of the Department of Science and Art, having a perpetual succession and a common seal, with a capacity in that name to sue and be sued, make contracts, purchase, take, hold, and enjoy for the purposes of Science and Art, as well goods and chattels as lands and hereditaments...
Page 13 - The Nativity, The Adoration of the Kings, and The Presentation in the Temple.
Page 51 - I desire that a Collection of Pictures and other Works of Art, fully representing British Art, should be formed, worthy of national support...
Page 7 - ... most important articles of medicine into the Materia Medica; or at the recent date of our acquaintance with the new properties and powers of those which have long been known. The properties of Mercury could hardly be . said to be known until the general spread of the venereal disease through Europe, towards the end of the i5th and the beginning of the i6th centuries. Nay not more than half the invaluable powers of this herculean medicine were discovered before the middle of the last century;...
Page 51 - Evidence accompanying Interim Report. In addition to the photographs for sale the Art Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum contains a collection of approximately 250,000 photographs of architecture, sculpture, paintings and other objects of art, together with photographs of animals, plants, etc. which provide material for the use of designers and others. Galleries. The programme of official lectures in the National Institutions is now well organised as will be seen from the monthly printed list...

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