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IN the recent correspondence on this subject the opinion has been expressed that a lack of co-operation between the various national museums has diminished their efficiency. In this connection it may be useful to recall the report of a Committee upon the Science Museum and the Museum of Geology in Jermyn Street of which the first part was issued in 1911 and the second in 1912; the former was discussed in NATURE at the time (May 4, 1911). This Committee, on which science was strongly represented, was appointed by the President of the Board of Education, and consisted of Sir Hugh Bell, Sir James Dobbie, Sir Archibald Geikie, Sir Richard Glazebrook, Mr. Andrew Laing, the Hon. Sir Schomberg McDonnell, Sir William Ramsay, Prof. W. Ripper, and Sir W. H. White. They were asked to advise as to the educational and other purposes which the collections could best serve in the national interests, the lines on which the collections should be arranged and developed, and as to the new buildings to be erected in order to house and exhibit them suitably.
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S., F. Museums and the State. Nature 105, 136 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105136a0
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