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WE are pleased to see a suggestion in the Midland Counties Herald that in considering the arrangements for the restoration of the Reference Library, recently almost destroyed by fire, the authorities will not miss the opportunity they now have of supplying an omission in the public institutions of Birmingham, by organising a Natural History Museum, of equal value with the Reference Library which they are doing their best to restore. We heartily endorse this suggestion, and indeed it seems strange

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