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IT having been now finally determined that the Natural History collections of the British Museum shall be removed from their present site to South Kensington, to form the nucleus of a National Museum of Natural History,† it appears to me that the principles upon which the proposed new institution are to be established and conducted, are well worthy of the special and most serious attention of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The inauguration or a National Museum of Natural History by one of the nations that have contributed most largely to the advancement of the natural sciences, is an event that is not likely to recur very often. If the opportunity thus presented be properly taken advantage of, and the new institution started urion sound principles of administration and arrangement, there can be no doubt that a most material impetus will be given to the progress of natural science in this country.
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SCLATER, P. On Certain Principles to be Observed in the Establishment of a National Museum of Natural History*. Nature 2, 455–458 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002455a0
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