Download or read book Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum (Classic Reprint) written by London Science Museum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum Since that time the additions to the Library have mainly been confined to books on science, selected with special reference to the requirements of the professors and students of the Normal School, now the Royal College of Science. About volumes have been received from Jermyn Street, a large proportion of these being Journals and Transactions of Scientific Societies, English and Foreign. At the close of 1884 the present Reading Room was opened, being the fifth room used for this purpose since 1857. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.