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Dated 1900-1956. From Material relating to the bequest to King's College London by Charles Wheatstone of his papers, books and scientific instruments, 1890-1992.

Papers relating to the Wheatstone collection of scientific instruments, notably including printed catalogue of the contents of the George III Museum, King's College London, including the George III Collection and Wheatstone Collection, 1900; correspondence with Edward Victor Appleton regarding the loan of instruments belonging to the Wheatstone Collection, King's College London, to the Science Museum, South Kensington, London, for use in an optical convention, 1926; correspondence relating to the transfer of two thermometers from the Wheatstone Collection, King's College London, to the Science Museum, 1950; correspondence relating to the transfer of scientific instruments from the Department of Physics, King's College London, to the Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 1951; correspondence relating to the supply of surplus scientific apparatus from the Department of Physics, King's College London, to the Working Men's College, Crowndale Road, London, 1951; series of inventories of the Wheatstone Collection of scientific instruments, artefacts and printed material, 1949-1956.