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Includes: 'Report on the steps which have been taken to dispose of surplus material in the stores and the present position with regard to collections at Willesden and the Wellcome Research Institution' by Johnston-Saint, Oct 1943; British Museum memorandum on 'The Wellcome Ethnographical Collections', Apr 1945; 'preliminary' correspondence with HJ Braunholz, Sir Henry Dale, City of Liverpool Public Museum, Horniman Museum, Colonial Office and the Royal Scottish Museum; sheets summarising the participation of various museums in the distributions

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'Surplus Ethnographical Material'

The Ten Distributions

'First instalment'

'Second instalment'

'Third instalment'

'Fourth instalment'

'Fifth instalment'

'Sixth instalment'

'Seventh instalment'

'Eighth instalment'

'Ninth instalment'

'Tenth instalment'

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