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ON reaching the age limit, Mr. Thomas Rowatt has recently retired from the directorship of the Royal Scottish Museum, which he has held since 1934. He entered the Civil Service as assistant in the Technological Department of the Royal Scottish Museum in 1902, became assistant-keeper in 1909 and keeper of the Department in 1921. The period of his directorship marked steady progress in the development of the activities of the Museum, and although the building was closed to the public on the outbreak of the War, and its valuable collections were dispersed to places of safety, Mr. Rowatt has in recent years arranged for special exhibits which have proved attractive to the people of Edinburgh and to the city's many visitors from overseas. Perhaps the most popular of these has been the present Fisheries Exhibition, arranged in co-operation with the Fisheries Department of the Scottish Home Office, at which the comprehensive collection of exhibits illustrating many aspects of Scottish fisheries has been supplemented by weekly lectures on a wide variety of fishery topics by recognized experts.
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Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh: Mr. Thomas Rowatt O.B.E. Nature 155, 297 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155297a0
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