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THE meetings held yesterday at St. James's Palace and the Mansion House, to which we have not time to refer at length this week, indicate that from the Prince of Wales downwards all interested in the proposed memorial are willing to allow the necessity of making the Institute one on a broad scientific basis. An admirable speech by Prof. Huxley at the Mansion House, following that of the Prince of Wales at the first meeting, shows that there is now no chance of the importance and of the necessity of collecting and arranging knowledge being overlooked.

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Notes . Nature 35, 254–257 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035254a0

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