Manganese. By Dr. A. W. Groves. 2nd ed. Reports on the Mineral Industry of the British Empire and Foreign Countries. Pp. 164. London: Imperial Institute, 1938. 3s. 6d.

1939 ◽  
Vol 58 (44) ◽  
pp. 973-973
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Mineral Industry ◽  
Foreign Countries ◽  
Imperial Institute

IV.—The Imperial Institute Map of the Chief Sources of Metals in the British Empire

1918 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 543-546
Author(s):  
R. H. R.
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Not Given ◽  
General Statement ◽  
Graphic Form ◽  
Commercial Importance ◽  
Large Type ◽  
The World ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
The Face

The Imperial Institute, in continuation of its publications with reference to the mineral resources of the Empire, has now issued a map with diagrams indicating the sources within the Empire of the chief metals of commercial importance. The outline map shows the occurrence in each British country of the important metallic ores and also the existence of deposits at present unworked. The locality for each occurrence is not given in detail, but only a general statement, carried out by printing the names of the metals therein found in large type across the face of the country. Asterisks indicate existence of unworked deposits in producing countries, while brackets show the existence of unworked deposits in nonproducing countries. Diagrams are also given, showing in a graphic form the production of metal or ore in each producing country; these statistics are given for the year 1915: since that date many and important changes have occurred, although no doubt it would be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain complete and reliable figures for the later years. The diagrams also show in an instructive manner the relation of the output of the British Empire to those of other countries of the world. The facts here set forth, when carefully studied, afford much food for reflection.

"Some Imperial Institute": Architecture, Symbolism, and the Ideal of Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1887-93

2003 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Alex Bremner
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Symbolic Form ◽  
Victorian Britain ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Sociopolitical Context ◽  
Imperial Institute ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Architecture Analysis

This article explores the relationship between architecture and imperial idealism in late Victorian Britain. It traces the development of the Imperial Institute in the South Kensington section of London from conception to completion, considering the proposals that surrounded the scheme in relation to the sociopolitical context within which it emerged. Sources such as letters, guidebooks, newspapers, journal articles, official publications, and government documents are drawn upon; from them an interpretation of the building is offered that moves beyond issues concerning style and patronage to broader cultural implications. The institute evolved as a consequence of the changing circumstances then affecting British foreign and imperial affairs, and commonly held beliefs relating to empire were reflected in the building's architecture. Analysis of the leading ideas that shaped the scheme formally and spatially reveals that the edifice was intended to stand literally as an emblem of the apparent strength and unity of the British empire. The importance of the institute as an architectural idea, therefore, lies not only in its attempt to give symbolic form to a concept of empire that was at the heart of late Victorian concerns, but also in the way it sought to mark and distinguish London as the center and capital of that empire.

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