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FREQUENT visits from, and even interchange of, the staffs of the larger museums of the British commonwealth of nations, as referred to in an article in NATURE of January 9, has evidently the strong approval of Mr. Frederick Chapman, the well-known authority on the Foraminifera, who has written to us from Melbourne on the subject. The 'Australian Museum' is situated at Sydney and there is the 'Melbourne National Museum', which from the wealth of its collections, especially palseontological, must be regarded as also of the highest rank. It is immaterial that one museum may be richer than the other in some sides of biology, for such must always be the case. The important matter is that tightening of the bonds between all the museums in question, which has the approval of the Museum Association of Australia. Further, we understand that a representative of this Association was deputed to discuss this with the trustees of the British Museum this summer. When can we expect to hear the result of this discussion?
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National Museums of Natural History. Nature 140, 272–273 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140272d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140272d0