Plan of the proposed Index Museum by Richard Owen 1879

Paper plan showing the floor layout of the proposed central hall of the British Museum (Natural History), now the Natural History Museum. The plan is dated 1879 two years before the building opened. The plan shows the space labelled as the Index Museum and includes hand written ink notes for the contents of each specimen bay.

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