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TO associations as to individuals there comes a time of trial, when their worth to the world is tested. The Museums Association, like other bodies, had to be proved by this year of war, and if it hesitated fully to grasp the great occasion, yet it rose not ignobly towards it. Devoted to the arts and studies of peace, it would fain have withdrawn awhile from the turbulence, had not a fortunate rule insisted on at least a general business meeting. Still wishing to be inconspicuous, it chose London as its place of assembly on July 7-8, proposing to do little more than prolong the official life of its officers and council who, it was thought, had been robbed of their opportunities by the war. Happily for the association, some wider imaginations took a stronger line, and determined to' show that the association and its constituent museums could now serve the nation better than ever. Happily, too, the hospitality of the Victoria and Albert Museum, gracefully offered by the Board of Education through Sir Cecil Smith, dragged the conference from its self-sought obscurity.
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The Museums Association . Nature 95, 549 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095549a0
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