SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM, AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
University, Edinburgh.
Director of Industrial Museum | Professor GEORGE WILSON, M.D.
and Professor of Technology] F.R.S.
Keeper of Natural History Professor ALLMAN, M.D., F.R.S.
Museum
DIRECTORY
OF
THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND.
Director
Chemist
MUSEUM OF IRISH INDUSTRY,
Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Geology
Chemistry
Physics
Natural History
Sir R. KANE, F.R.S. ROBERT GALLOWAY,
PROFESSORS.
J. B. JUKES, M.D., F.R.S. Dr. W. SULLIVAN,
Dr. BARKER.
Professor HARVEY.
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY,
Kildare Street, Dublin.
Patroness, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President, The LORD LIEUTENANT.
Secretaries, L. S. FOOT, and J. F. WALKER, LL.D. Assistant-Secretary, Dr. STEELE.
Physics
Professor Scouler.
COMMITTEE OF LECTURES,
The Castle, Dublin.
The Right Hon. The CHANCELLOR. The CHIEF SECRETARY.
R. GRIFFITH, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.E.
Sir R. KANE, F.R.C.
Lord TALBOT DE MALAHIDE.
The Right Hon. F. BLACKBURN.
F. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.
The Rev. J. GALBRAITH.
Secretary, F. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.
THE establishment of the Industrial Museum of Scotland dates from 1854. In that year Parliament, influenced by the number of memorials which for a lengthened period previously had been addressed to Government by the various learned bodies, public societies, and representatives of the manufacturing, agricultural, and other industrial interests of North Britain, resolved to institute in Edinburgh a Museum similar to those of Economic Geology and of Industry in London and Dublin. In the votes for that year the House of Commons granted £7,000 for the purchase of a site upon which the Museum should be built, and a further sum was voted for expenditure in the acquisition of specimens, and for the salaries of the officers who should be appointed to collect, arrange, and preserve these.
The site purchased is in close proximity to the University of Edinburgh, lying to the westward, between it and Argyle-square. Besides a considerable open space, it is occupied by two buildings, styled, at the period of their purchase, Argyle-square Independent Chapel, and the Trades Maiden Hospital. As it was not the intention of Government to erect a new edifice till some progress had been made in the collection of objects suitable for an Industrial Museum, the buildings in question were appropriated to their reception, and within the walls a large series of examples of Industrial Art has gradually accumulated, and daily receives additions.
Legal difficulties in the way of transfer of property made it necessary to apply for an Act of Parliament before the purchase of the entire site could be completed, nor was it till 1855 that possession was entered on. In the spring of that year Dr. George Wilson, of Edinburgh,
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SCOTTISH INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM, AND MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY,
University, Edinburgh.
Director of Industrial Museum | Professor GEORGE WILSON, M.D.
and Professor of Technology] F.R.S.
Keeper of Natural HistoryProfessor ALLMAN, M.D., F.R.S.
Museum
5.
DIRECTORY
OF
THE INDUSTRIAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND.
Director
Chemist
MUSEUM OF IRISH INDUSTRY,
Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Geology
Chemistry
Physics
Natural History
Sir R. KANE, F.R.S. ROBERT GALLOWAY,
PROFESSORS.
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J. B. JUKES, M.D., F.R.S. Dr. W. SULLIVAN,
Dr. BARKER.
Professor HARVEY.
ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY,
Kildare Street, Dublin.
Patroness, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President, The LORD LIEUTENANT.
Secretaries, L. S. Foor, and J. F. WALKER, LL.D. Assistant-Secretary, Dr. STEELE.
Physics
PROFESSOR.
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Professor Scouler.
COMMITTEE OF LECTURES,
The Castle, Dublin.
The Right Hon. The CHANCELLOR. The CHIEF SECRETARY.
R. GRIFFITH, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S.E.
Sir R. KANE, F.R.C.
Lord TALBOT DE MALANDE.
The Right Hon. F. BLACKBURN.
F. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.
The Rev. J. GALBRAITH.
Secretary, F. J. SIDNEY, LL.D.
THE establishment of the Industrial Museum of Scotland dates from 1854. In that year Parliament, influenced by the number of memorials which for a lengthened period pre- viously had been addressed to Government by the various learned bodies, public societies, and representatives of the manufacturing, agricultural, and other industrial interests of North Britain, resolved to institute in Edinburgh a Museum similar to those of Economic Geology and of Indus- try in London and Dublin. In the votes for that year the House of Commons granted 7,0001. for the purchase of a site upon which the Museum should be built, and a further was voted for expenditure in the acquisition of specimens, and for the salaries of the officers who should he appointed to collect, arrange, and
preserve these.
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The site purchased is in close proximity to the University of Edinburgh, lying to the westward, between it and Ar- gyle-square. Besides a considerable open space, it is occu- pied by two buildings, styled, at the period of their purchase, Argyle-square Independent Chapel, and the Trades Maiden Hospital. As it was not the intention of Government to erect a new edifice till some progress had been made in the collection of objects suitable for an Industrial Museum, the buildings in question were appropriated to their recep- tion, and within the walls a large series of examples of In- dustrial Art has gradually accumulated, and daily receives additions.
Legal difficulties in the way of transfer of property made it necessary to apply for an before the purchase of the entire site could be completed, Act of Parliament nor was it till 1855 that possession was entered on. the spring of that year Dr. George Wilson, of Edinburgh,
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