| Description | Parliamentary questions about programme of internal reconstruction of museum, new library building, Map and Egerton Rooms, National Reference Library of Science and Invention, state of British Museum, location of Patent Office, exterior cleaning of Museum (7 pages); restoration of bronzes and of antiquities from outside bodies (2 pages); cataloguing of collection of bindings; disposal of surplus books (5 pages); theft of flower mosaic; recommended analysis of bronzes and amber (2 pages); loans (6 pages); exhibition of graphic work of Oscar Kokoschka; exchange of Greek coins; purchase recommended and requests for permission to bid (9 pages); bequests (4 pages); gifts; purchases from departmental funds (2 pages). |