| Description | Purchases from departmental funds (4 pages); minutes of Advisory Committee of the National Reference Library of Science and Invention (11 pages); minutes of meeting of Committee on Investment (3 pages); appointment to Board of Lord Florey; nationalization of Palestine Archaeological Museum; note on damage to kohl pots; request for chemical and structural analysis of bronze weapons and armour; draft regulations for loan of objects from collections and questionnaire to be answered by institutions requesting loan (3 pages); loan of drawings to Frankfurt Art Institute; proposed exhibition of objects purchased with help of National Art Collections Fund; exhibitions of prints and drawings; loans to Museum (4 pages); Director's statement of balances; proposed export of Caxton Manuscript (2 pages); purchases of Macmillan archives; bid for silver tetradrachms of Bactria; purchases recommended and reported (9 pages); bid for continental, Merovingian and Viking gold rings; notes on and recommendation to purchases Dr Dee's magic speculum (6 pages); bequest of Tibetan figures; gift of diary of Lord Chuter-Ede; summary of purchase recommended. |