Natural History Museum

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Aldous Huxley	AH 's paternal grandfather, Thomas Henry Huxley , was a famous biologist who died just a year after his grandson's birth. When he was six Aldous attended, with his entire family, the unveiling of a...
Occupation	Mary Anne Barker	MAB became the first Lady Superintendent of the new National School of Cookery , temporarily housed in a series of sheds owned by the institution which later became the Natural History Museum . Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press. 179-80 Barker, Mary Anne. Colonial Memories. Smith, Elder. 240
Reception	Mary Kingsley	The Natural History Museum in South Kensington still holds specimens and letters that MK sent to Dr Günther. Frank, Katherine. A Voyager Out: The Life of Mary Kingsley. Houghton Mifflin. 154
Textual Features	Sara Maitland	Rachel, a paleontologist in her seventies (a curator at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington), is faced by her own intellectual shift away from the Darwin inian gradualism which she has always believed...

Timeline

1863

Parliament approved the purchase of twelve acres of land at South Kensington (formerly part of the Exhibition site) as the site of the Natural History Museum .

1873

Construction of the present Natural History Museum began.

1881

The Natural History Museum opened in South Kensington as the British Museum (Natural History).

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