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Abstract

WE trust that it is not in the least likely that the proposal “From a Correspondent” in Saturday's Times to remove the Science Museum to make way for a permanent Colonial Museum will receive serious attention in any influential quarter. For this proposal really involves the monstrous step of shunting collections which have been brought together with so much trouble and at so much expense. Their value was recognised by the Duke of Devonshire's Commission. As to the Colonial Museum we shall be in a better position to express an opinion upon it when its nature and objects are further developed. We wish in no way to disparage it; but there is room for it elsewhere. Why should its founders try to build it on the ruins of an existing and valuable collection?