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AT the present day most States possess their national museums, in which are exhibited long ranges of animals, plants, fossils and rocks. Many of their larger cities support their own local museums, regarding them as centres of culture and of education. Such smaller museums cater for a local population, and for the most part their exhibits centre round their own localities. They are generally connected with the local education authority and with a local university if such exists. The interests of national museums, on the other hand, extend farther afield. They usually attempt to show a world range in their exhibits, while displaying with especial care the organisms of their country. They thus are associated with the higher education of their nation, specialists in the biological sciences usually passing some part of their student days in study within their walls.
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National Museums of Natural History. Nature 139, 43–44 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139043a0
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