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IN 1930 the experiment was tried of issuing a free guide-leaflet to the exhibition collections in the Mineral Department of the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. The distribution of the leaflet is helped by some attractive exhibits of popular interest placed near the entrance to the gallery. By these means a considerably larger number of visitors have been induced to take an intelligent interest in the collections. The fact that 20,000 of these leaflets have been taken away by visitors, none being left as litter, proves that they have been appreciated. In the four-paged leaflet, attention is especially directed to the various uses of minerals by giving lists of gem-stones, ores of the metals, other minerals of economic importance, building and road stones, ornamental stones, and radium-bearing minerals, with the number of the cases in which each may be seen. A third issue of 10,000 copies of the leaflet is now available.
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Minerals at the Natural History Museum. Nature 129, 646 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129646a0
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