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THE first three sections of a new exhibition in the central hall of the British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, dealing with viruses and virus diseases have been opened. The exhibition has been planned in collaboration with Dr. K. M. Smith, of the Plant Virus Research Station, Cambridge. The effects are shown of virus infection in animals and plants (for example, foot-and-mouth disease, and tobacco mosaic disease), and modes of virus transmission both by direct contact and by means of insects are illustrated. Further exhibits in this series which are in preparation will cover the subjects of virus ‘carriers' and the study of viruses in the laboratory.
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British Museum (Natural History). Nature 161, 966 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161966a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161966a0