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ON June 1 the Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, the Earl of Clarendon, opened the reconstructed South African Museum in Cape Town, and so marked the accomplishment of an instalment of the development scheme of the trustees. The Museum, founded as a Cape Government institution in 1885, was housed in a new building in 1897, but had seriously outgrown the accommodation there. The present additions permit of a running sequence in the exhibits of different sections, and have given new opportunities for the proper display of some of the treasures the Museum possesses. The additions, on two stories, consist of the old Art Gallery and an entirely new block on the opposite or Avenue side, forming two large halls, 90 feet long by about 35 feet wide. The lower of these is devoted to ethnology, and here the famous life-casts of native races have found a fitting place; the upper contains the big-game collection, and the opening is marked by the addition of a new group of springbok. The trustees and Dr. Leonard Gill have made a notable contribution to museum progress in the Union.
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Re-opening of the South African Museum. Nature 130, 126 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130126c0
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