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IN the House of Commons on June 29, Mr. W. Ormsby-Gore, First Commissioner of Works, moved the second reading of the bill for the setting up of a National Maritime Museum in the buildings recently occupied by the Greenwich Hospital School. The cost of adapting the vacant school buildings is estimated at £29,000 and Sir James Caird has generously offered to defray this sum. Sir James has already given large sums towards the restoration of H.M.SS. Victory and Implacable and presented the Museum with the Macpherson Collection of Naval Prints. There is nowhere, said Mr. Ormsby-Gore, where one can study the history of our maritime adventure and development, and no attempt has yet been made to illustrate conveniently for the general public the immense field of British maritime endeavour, historical, technical, geographical and commercial, including not only the exploits of the Royal Navy but also of the mercantile marine. A Boara of Trustees with the Earl Stanhope as chairman has been appointed and the post of director has been offered to Prof. G. A. R. Callender, of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, whose enthusiasm and scholarship in all matters appertaining to naval history are well known.
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The National Maritime Museum. Nature 134, 20 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/134020b0
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