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THE front part of the Natural History Museum, Bristol, which is an old building, has been entirely gutted by fire. The Geological Department was destroyed, but type specimens and much material in store were saved. Unfortunately, the fine collection of fossil saurian skeletons, especially those from the Lias of Street and Lyme Regis have been lost. The Zoology Department suffered considerably, but there is sufficient material left for reconstruction. Cases and contents in botany have gone, but some of the herbaria are intact. Cases and about half the contents, including glass and china, in the George Wills Hall have been destroyed.
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Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Nature 147, 111 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147111c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147111c0