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asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will provide a list of the purchases, with the prices paid for each made out of the grants-in-aid provided by the Civil Vote, Class IV, Votes 1 to 8, for the year ending 31st March, 1948.
pursuant to his reply [OFFICIAL REPORT, 16th March, 1949, Vol. 462, c. 193], supplied the following information as to purchases out of grants-in-aid provided in Votes 1 to 8 of the Civil Estimates, Class IV, for the year ended 31st March, 1948. It is not in the public interest to disclose the prices of individual purchases.
| £ | s. | d. | |
| National Gallery | |||
| Landscape with a Snake (Nicolas Poussin). | |||
| National Portrait Gallery | |||
| Self Portrait of John Phillip | |||
| Portrait of Sir Augustus W. | |||
| Callcott. | |||
| Portrait of Sir Thomas More | |||
| Portrait of Sir Charles Holmes | |||
| Portrait of Sir John Everett | |||
| Millais. | |||
| Portrait of Edward IV | |||
| Collection of 198 drawings by | |||
| Harry Furniss. | |||
| Collection of 67 drawings by | |||
| Harry Furniss. | |||
| Collection of engraved works by | |||
| Gillray. | |||
| Total (National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery) | £7,810 | 13 | 0 |
| Tate Gallery | |||
| Kensington Sand Quarry (John Linnell). | |||
| A Lake Scene—Effect of Storm (Edwin Landseer). | |||
| Old London Bridge (D. Turner) | |||
| Westminster Bridge (D. Turner) | |||
| Portrait of Francis Beckford(Reynolds). | |||
| Portrait of Susannah Beckford (Reynolds). | |||
| Portrait of the Rt. Hon. Sir Capel Molyneux, Bart. | |||
| Broken Vows (P. H. Calderon) | |||
| Total | £2,228 | 8 | 0 |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | |||
| Architecture and Sculpture: 5 items | 320 | 0 | 0 |
| Ceramics: 6 items | 188 | 0 | 0 |
| Engraving, Illustration and Design: 24 items | 745 | 15 | 6 |
| Metal work: 1 item | 650 | 0 | 0 |
| Paintings: 2 items | 381 | 15 | 0 |
| Textiles: 10 items | 1,408 | 19 | 0 |
| Woodwork: 13 items. | 2,259 | 10 | 0 |
| Indian Art: 5 items | 786 | 17 | 3 |
| For the Circulation Department: 61 items | 613 | 19 | 8 |
| Books for the Library: about 2,100 | 3,838 | 10 | 0 |
| Total | £11,193 | 6 | 5 |
| Science Museum | |||
| Department of Physics and Geophysics: 2 items | 165 | 0 | 0 |
| Department of Land Transport, Civil Construction, etc.: 4 items | 29 | 0 | 8 |
| Total | £194 | 0 | 8 |
British Museum
| £ | s. | d. |
The Library
| |||
| Department of Printed Books: | |||
| approx. 25,000 books | 13,384 | 0 | 0 |
| Department of Manuscripts:4 items | 830 | 0 | 0 |
| Department of Oriental Books and Manuscripts: items | 628 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | £14,842 | 0 | 0 |
The Museum
| |||
| Prints and Drawings: 520 items | 633 | 0 | 0 |
| Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities: 7 items | 25 | 0 | 0 |
| British and Medieval Antiquities: 3 items | 6,118 | 0 | 0 |
| Greek and Roman Antiquities: 27 items | 4,480 | 0 | 0 |
| Ethnographical Specimens: 720 items | 668 | 0 | 0 |
| Oriental Antiquities: 48 items | 799 | 0 | 0 |
| Coins and Medals: 1,665 items | 1,862 | 0 | 0 |
| Freight and carriage on the above | 681 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | £15,266 | 0 | 0 |
The British Museum (Natural History)
| |||
| Zoological specimens;19,188 items | 1,575 | 0 | 0 |
| Insect specimens; 38,715 items | 605 | 17 | 0 |
| Fossils; 1,551 items | 130 | 0 | 0 |
| Mineral specimens; 31 items | 197 | 12 | 2 |
| Plant specimens; 18,814 items | 903 | 4 | 4 |
| Books for the Library | 1,791 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | £5,202 | 18 | 6 |
Imperial War Museum
| |||
| Ship models | 914 | 10 | 0 |
| Models of landing craft | 140 | 10 | 0 |
| Maps and diagrams of naval action | 120 | 0 | 0 |
| Copies of Army "flashes" | 70 | 17 | 0 |
| A Drawing | 15 | 15 | 0 |
| Air photographs | 1 | 7 | 11 |
| German paper money | 1 | 18 | 6 |
| German medals | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| Books and periodicals for the Library | 163 | 3 | 8 |
| Total | £1,429 | 10 | 1 |
National Maritime Museum
| |||
| Ship models; 3 items | 51 | 8 | 3 |
| Prints; 3 items | 26 | 6 | 3 |
| Drawings; 4 items | 26 | 6 | 3 |
| Gun; 1 item | 20 | 0 | 0 |
| Relics and miscellaneous items;4 items | 18 | 17 | 6 |
| Books for the Library; 13 items | 54 | 3 | 7 |
| Manuscripts; 1 item | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | £202 | 6 | 10 |
| £ | s. | d. | |
The London Museum
| |||
| Prints and drawings; 747 items | 120 | 11 | 6 |
| Old books and manuscripts relating to London; 27 items | 119 | 2 | 3 |
| Textiles and costumes; 2 items | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| Arms and armour; 5 items | 24 | 0 | 0 |
| Metal work | 105 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | £374 | 0 | 9 |
Local Museums Grant-in-Aid 15 Miscellaneous items
| £829 | 17 | 6 |