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As you are a free lance in British Museum matters, will you not make some remarks on the attendants? They are, as a body, intelligent and desirous of learning, but no attempts seem ever to be made to instruct them in the subjects of their departments; and all the information they possess is picked up by scraps, from overhearing the remarks of their chiefs to distinguished visitors.
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PETRIE, W. British Museum Attendants. Nature 22, 338 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022338a0
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