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AFTER an interval of eighteen years, Dublin has for the second time been the meeting-place of the Museums Association. The gathering lasted from Tuesday, July 9, until Friday, July 12, inclusive. No observant attendant at both meetings could fail to be struck by the widening of interest noticeable in the recent, as compared with the earlier, meeting. In 1894 the members of the association, except for a preliminary municipal reception, were left very much to themselves, and the papers and discussions dealt for the most part with questions of museum tech nique. This year the proceedings were opened by the Lord Mayor of Dublin, who attended in state, and the Viceroy of Ireland was present at the association's annual dinner. An official welcome was also person ally offered by the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction. The pro gramme of the meeting was drawn up to llustrate the relation of museums to general education, and though art collections and picture galleries furnished the special subject of most of the papers, the principles expounded might be also applied by the natural history curator.
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The Museums Association at Dublin . Nature 89, 541–542 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089541b0
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