Seventy-eighth annual meeting. Guide book.

  • British Medical Association. Annual Meeting 1910 : London, England)
Date:
1910
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    THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE, THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, AND THE IMPERIAL COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. The parallelogram extending from Kensington Gore, where the Albert Hall faces the Albert Memorial and Kensington Gardens southward to Cromwell Road, is almost entirely occupied by public buildings. In the mid part of the site is the Imperial Institute, the eastern portion of which is in the occupation of the University of London. Facing this on the south are the buildings of the Imperial College of Science and Technology. The southernmost part of the site is occupied by the British Museum of Natural History, facing Cromwell Road (see page 40). The parallelogram is bounded on the east by Exhibition Road, and on the west by Queen’s Gate. The position of the buildings is shown in the plan at the end of this volume, where the site of the Victoria and Albert Museum (see page 64) is also indicated. Access.—The nearest stations to the University are South Ken- sington (P. and D.) and Gloucester Road (P. and D.), the former being a little the nearer. Omnibuses from Trafalgar Square by way of Piccadilly pass, seme the north end and some the south end of Exhibition Road, near South Kensington Station. The Univer- sity is about twenty minutes’ walk across Kensington Gardens from Paddington Station (G.W.R. and M.) and about a quarter of an hour from Lancaster Gate Station (C.) and Queen’s Road Station (C. )• PRINCIPAL MUSEUM AND PUBLIC PICTURE GALLERIES AND FINE ART COLLECTIONS. The National Collections maintained in London are displayed in many separate buildings, all with few exceptions in the West End. The British Museum. The British Museum was founded in 1753 by an Act of Parliament, which provided “for the purchase of the museum or collection of Sir Hans Sloane and of the Harleian collection of manu- scripts, and for providing one general repository for the better reception and more convenient use of the said collections, and of the Cottonian Library and of the additions thereto.” Sir Hans Sloane, who was President of the Royal College of Physicians of London from 1719 to 1735, and who in 1727 succeeded Sir Isaac Newton in the presidency of the Royal Society, an ofiice he retained until 1741, formed during his long and prosperous career a large and miscellaneous collection. Sloane was born in 1660, and was a friend of William Courten, a naturalist, who made a very large