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This briefly summarises the information gathered about transfers of material (date, type, etc) for each of the following institutions, whether they have an individual file or not: 
Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum
Belfast, Ulster Museum (formerly Belfast Museum & Art Gallery)
Birmingham, City Museum & Art Gallery
Cambridge, University Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
Cardiff, National Museum of Wales
Dartford, Borough Museum
Derby, City Museum & Art Gallery
Dublin, Trinity College, Weingreen Museum of Biblical Antiquities
Durham, University, Oriental Art Museum (ex Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art)
Edinburgh, City Museum
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum
Glasgow, University
Glasgow, University, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery
Halifax, Bankfield Museum
Keele, University teaching collection
Leeds, City Museum see Leeds, University
Leeds, University, Department of Social Studies (now Dept of Sociology) Anthropological Museum (since 1964 on loan to Leeds City Museum)
Leeds University
Leicester, Newarke House Museum (Leicestershire Museums & Art Galleries)
Liverpool Museum (now Merseyside County Museum Services)
Liverpool, University
London, British Museum, Dept of Mediaeval & Later Antiquities (formerly British & Mediaeval)
London, British Museum, Dept of W Asiatic Antiquities
London, British Museum, Dept of Ethnography (Museum of Mankind)
London, British Museum (Natural History)
London, Gipsy Hill Training College
London, Horniman Museum
London, The Armouries (H.M. Tower of London)
London, The London Museum (Kensington Palace) (now the Museum of London)
London, National Maritime Museum
London, Royal Arsenal Museum, Woolwich
London (Walthamstow), Vestry House Museum
London, United Service Museum, Whitehall (for distribution to relevant regimental museums)
London University, Institute of Archaeology
London, University College
London, University College, Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
London, Westminster Cathedral
London, Whiston Higher Side School (not traced)
Manchester, The Manchester Museum
Merseyside County Museums Service see Liverpool Museum
Newcastle on Tyne, Hancock Museum
Oxford, Pitt Rivers
Oxford, University
Swansea, University College, Dept of Classics, Wellcome Museum
Winchester, Royal Greenjackets' Museum

Australia, Parkville (Victoria), University of Melbourne
Australia, Sydney (New South Wales), unknown museum
Belgium, Antwerp Ethnographic Museum
Belgium, Brussels University
Canada, Vancouver, University of British Columbia, Dept. of History of Medicine & Science
France, Paris, Museé du Louvre
Germany, Bremen, Übersee Museum
Germany, Frankfurt, Ethnographic Museum
Germany, Hamburg Ethnographic and Historical Museum
Köln, Rautenstrach-Joest Museum of Ethnography
Ghana, Accra, Museums of Monuments (ex National Museum of the Gold Coast)
India, Lucknow University
?Israel, Jerusalem, Archaeological Museum (described in archives as "Palestine Archaeology Museum")
Netherlands, Amsterdam, Koninglijike Instituut voor de Tropen
Netherlands, Breda, Ethnographisch Museum der Koninglijke Militaire Academie
Netherlands, The Hague, Museum voor det Onderwijs
Netherlands, Leiden, Rijksmuseum voor Volkendunde
Netherlands, Rotterdam, Museum voor Lund - und Volkenkunde
New Zealand, Auckland (chosen by Kenneth A Webster) (also chosen for Dunedin, Christchurch and Wellington)
Nigeria, Lagos, National Museum
Norway, Bergen University, Historisk Museum
Norway, Oslo University, Akademiske Collegium
Norway, Stavanger Museum
Norway, Trondheim, Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskab Museet
S. Africa, Republic of, East London Museum (via Liverpool Museum)
S. Africa, Republic of , University of Witwatersrand
Sierra Leone
Sweden, Gotenborg Ethnographic Museum
Sweden, Stockholm, National Ethnographic Museum
Switzerland, Basle Ethnographic Museum
Switzerland, Zurich University Ethonography Museum
Uganda, Kampala?, Uganda Museum (include Makere College School of Art)
?Uganda, Rhodes-Livingston Museum 
United States of America, Los Angeles, University of California, Los Angeles 
United States of America, New York, Metropolitan Museum
Zaire, Kinshasa, Universitas Lovanium (ex Leopoldville)
Zambabwe, Harare, University College Museum (ex S Rhodesia, Salisbury)
Zimbabwe, Harare, Queen Victoria Museum (ex Queen Victoria Memorial Museum & Library, Salisbury, S. Rhodesia)

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