• Most prominent collection was their natural history collections which were outsourced to the new British Museum of Natural History in 1887.
  • New development of the White Wing in 1884 created the ability to house more antiquities and ethnography, allowing the library to further expand. (wiki)
  • “...Gertrude was about to set out for the British Museum, where she was going through a course of photographic reading, under the direction of Mr. Russel” (Chapter 4)
  • “To the British Museum”(Chapter 7) – Gertrude is talking to Aunt Caroline about where she’d been that morning. She was taking her course with Mr. Russel

 Where Gertrude was going through a course of photographic reading under the direction of Mr. Russel


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