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THE fact that the Science and Art Department have had before them for at least ten years the proposal to establish a science museum, is shown conclusively enough, in NATURE for last week. May I be allowed to draw attention to a still earlier suggestion of the same character? As far back as 1859, two years after the establishment of the Patent Office Museum, the Commissioners of Patents laid a Report before Parliament, in which the following passage occurs:—
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WOOD, H. A Science Museum. Nature 14, 349–350 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014349c0
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