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THE eighteenth annual report of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, for the year ended Dec. 31, 1931, has recently been issued.* The opening paragraphs reflect the influences of the financial position of the country upon policy, inasmuch as the main object of the trustees in the immediate future will be one of consolidation rather than the inauguration of new and pioneer schemes. In their view, the urgent demand for drastic economy in national and local expenditure, coupled with the restriction of private generosity, compels limitations of policy. Grants from the Trust will be made in order to maintain and stabilise activities which have already been assisted and have themselves tended to move forward under their own momentum. But grants for entirely new purposes are to be few in number, and to be made only for exceptionally strong and urgent reasons. These decisions, however prudent, must inevitably bring disappointment in various quarters, but, at any rate, they cannot fail to be understood.
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Carnegie Grants for Libraries and Museums. Nature 130, 68 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130068a0
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