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IN NATURE for May 5 we printed the report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons which has recently been inquiring into the Museums of the Science and Art Department, relating to the recent proposal of the Government to build the new laboratories for the Royal College of Science on the east side of Exhibition Road. We have received for publication the following memorial recently presented to Lord Salisbury by Lord Lister, the President of the Royal Society, which has been signed by the president and officers, all the living past presidents, and many fellows of the Society, entirely endorsing the views of the Select Committee, and urging the Government to refrain from a step which is not only contrary to the policy vvhich has been pursued for the last ten years, but which, if carried out, would make the allocation of land at South Kensington for Science and Art purposes respectively ridiculous. Nor is this all. So far as science and science teaching is concerned, we should be landed in a position far inferior to that occupied by such towns as Gratz, Chemnitz, or Aachen, not to speak of some chief cities of the Continent, Berlin, Vienna, Paris.
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The Science Buildings at South Kensington. Nature 58, 54–55 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/058054a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/058054a0