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THE twenty-ninth annual report, for the year ending September 30, 1936, of the National Museum of Wales, gives evidence of steady progress. By an increase of £500, the Treasury annual grant for the year was raised to £17,375, and a detailed report, furnished to H.M. Treasury by the Council, and pointing to the increased expenditure necessitated by the opening of the east wing, had the effect of inducing an allocation of £18,500 for the current year and a promise of £20,000 per annum as from April 1, 1938. The increased grant has enabled the Council to found a Specimens Purchase Fund, to be applied to the purchase of collections or specimens of outstanding importance as the need arises, and to create a Department of Folk Culture and Industries, which was responsible for a special temporary exhibition of Welsh furniture. At that exhibition nearly a hundred examples of furniture, made or used in Wales, and ranging from Tudor to Georgian times, were gathered together. The list of free public lectures displays refreshing variety, and the installation of a 16 mm. sound film apparatus should add to the popularity of the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre.
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National Museum of Wales. Nature 139, 665 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139665d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/139665d0