Abstract
ON the 3rd inst. the corner stone of the American Museum of Natural History in New York was laid by the President of the United States. The ground belonging to the Museum measures about eighteen acres, and the building when completed according to plan will be larger than the British Museum. The object of the Museum is twofold:—First to interest and instruct the masses; and secondly, and specially, to render all possible assistance to specialists. The library presented to the Museum by Miss Wolfe, with a large collection of shells, also donated by Miss Wolfe to the Museum in memory of her father, who was its first President, was purchased by her at a cost of 35,000 dols. The other collections at present in the temporary Museum are valued at 250,000 dols. A rare and newly complete series of
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Notes . Nature 10, 150–152 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/010150b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/010150b0
