The India Museum 1801-1879.L.1982.34 ($ col.)plates 215 p. gr8vo.Bound.

An Oriental Respository is established/Formative years/Horsfield in control/Expansion of natural history collections/Royle and internationalexhibitions/Move to Fife House/Reporter on the Products of India/Moreinternational exhibitions/ Archeology, photography and publications/Searchfor a permanent home/Imperial Museum for India and the Colonies/A strange affair/ Dispersal/Epilogue/ Appendix:List of India Museum publications/Index.-From the preface: The India Museum first came to myattention through an interest in natural history.i knew that it had madefrequent gifts of herbarium speciments to the British Museum,the RoyalBotanical Gardens at Kew and the Linnean society;I had also oftenadmired the splendid drawings of plants by artists which it once possesed,many of which are now in the library of Kew Gardens.When Ientered the world of Oriental studies I encountered from time to time brief and somewhat enigmatic references to the India Museum butnowhere could I find any comprehensive account of its genesis,development and demise.