HC Deb 17 February 1880 vol 250 c791
MR. J. HOLMS

asked the First Commissioner of Works, When the Museum of Natural History at South Kensington will be opened?

MR. GERARD NOEL

Sir, the building is now practically completed, and will be handed over to the Office of Works by the contractors in a few days. The necessary fittings for the Botanical and Mineralogical collections are being made; they will be ready at an early date, and admit of the removal of these collections taking place in the course of the summer, which, I believe, is the intention of the Trustees of the British Museum.