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HARD on the heels of the report on Canadian museums by Sir Henry Miers and Mr. S. F. Markham, which was reviewed in NATURE of January 21, p. 84, comes the same authors' “Report on the Museums and Art Galleries of British Africa” to gether with a “Report on the Museums of Malta, Cyprus and Gibraltar by Alderman Chas. Squire and D. W. Herdman”. The report is accompanied by a “Directory” (price 5s.) of all these museums, and of those of Mauritius, constituting the third volume of the “Directory of Museums” being published by the Museums Association. To visit the forty museums of Africa was a strenuous enterprise even with all the resources of modern transport. Those museums cover a wide range in quality and administration as well as in distribution, from the fine South African Museum in Cape Town to the poor apology for a scientific museum, which, as the authors say more than once, is unworthy of that rich city Johannes burg. Poverty coupled with handsome buildings are the characteristics of the South African museums—a combination not unknown in other lands. Their chief needs are said to be “greater financial security, some forms of active co-operation between all museums, and the development of educational work”.
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Museums of British Territory in Africa and the Mediterranean. Nature 131, 430 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131430a0
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