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Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Alan Q. Morton
Alan Q. Morton
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Science Museum, South Kensington, London SW7 2DD.
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 28 , Issue 1 , March 1995 , pp. 1 - 3
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2 For details of surviving contemporary collections, see Holbrook, Mary, with additions by Anderson, R. G. W. and Bryden, D. J., Science Preserved, London, 1992Google Scholar. For a comparison of thr King George III Collection with others, see Morton, A. Q. and Wess, J. A., ‘The models of Stephen Demainbray in the King George III Collection’, Journal of the History of Collections, forthcoming.Google Scholar

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