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FOR an association which, during the first thirty years of its existence, has confined its meetings to cities in the British Isles, the proposal to hold this year's conference in Paris seemed somewhat hazardous. Whatever objections may have presented themselves to some, members, there can be no doubt that the experiment proved a greater success than any anticipated. During the week July 11–17 the seventy delegates from national, municipal, and semi-private museums, with their president, who, by good fortune, happened to be a man of such dis- j tinction as Sir Frederic Kenyon, were received in the most cordial manner by the heads of the State Museums of Art and of Science, by the Conseil Municipal and by the directors of its museums, and by the authorities of Les Invalides, the Bibliotheque Nationale, and similar institutions. Receptions at the Louvre, the Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, the H6tel de Ville, and the club “Autour du Monde” enabled members to become personally acquainted with many French colleagues; and visits to the numerous and rich collections of Paris, Versailles, St. Germain, and Malmaison, under the guidance of distinguished authorities, with privileges accorded only to heads of State among the lay public, enlarged the ideas of the British visitors almost beyond the limits of receptivity.
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The Paris Conference of the Museums Association. Nature 107, 688–689 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107688a0
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