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THE Royal Ontario Museum at Toronto was officially reopened on October 12 by the Prime Minister of Ontario in the presence of the Lieutenant Governor and other officials of the Province and of the University of Toronto. The Museum was originally opened in 1914 as a combination university and provincial museum. The interior of the old building has been completely remodelled and a large addition constituting the main section of the building erected at a cost of nearly 2,000,000 dollars. The front section houses the natural history galleries, including those of geology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology, and the connecting link, and the old section those of archaeology. In connexion with the opening ceremonies honorary degrees were conferred by the University of Toronto upon Dr. C. G. Abbott, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, Mr. J. B. O'Brian, chairman of the Board of Trustees, Mrs. H. D. Warren, vice-chairman, and Mr. Sigmund Samuel, member of the Board.
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Royal Ontario Museum. Nature 132, 851–852 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132851d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132851d0