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THE leading article in NATURE of January 9, on “National Museums of Natural History”, discusses the relationship, “beyond the ordinary courtesies of friendship, which exists between these institutions”. In the final paragraph, it is said: “We know of no such ties, and we wonder whether the interests of science in our Commonwealth of Nations would not be best served by attempting to develop such links. A free interchange of co-types could do much”, and concludes, “But more is wanted, for the taxonomists in all [institutions] must have the same methods and ideas as to species in their work, and this can be secured by the periodical interchange of their staffs”.
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Hill, A. Royal Botanical Gardens and Empire Botanists. Nature 139, 422–423 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139422a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139422a0