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THE India Museum, which was opened in South Kensington last month, was founded by the Court of Directors of the Honourable East India Company in 1798. In 1860 it was removed from Leadenhall Street to Fyfe House, and in 1869 to the India Office. The galleries of the Exhibition Building, in which it is now temporarily lodged, have been leased from H.M. Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 for three years. The lower gallery is devoted to Raw Products, and the upper gallery to Manufactures. The present arrangement of the India Museum Collections is to a large extent only temporary, and fulfils mainly the purpose of bringing them into view preparatory to their final classification, The preparation of Descriptive Catalogues will go hand in hand with the completion of the different groups.
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India Museum, South Kensington . Nature 12, 192–193 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012192a0
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