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ACCORDING to the Report of the Science Museum for tho year 1934 (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1935, Is. net) well over a million visitors have made use of the Museum, including more than a thousand organised groups and parties of about thirty, and the attendances at lectures were well over 30,000. The policy of holding special exhibitions to illustrate the advance of science into industry has been most successful, and the attendance at those on refrigeration from April until September 1934 and on rubber from November 1934 until April 1935 was very gratifying. The children's gallery has been visited by 13,000 children in school parties, and the introductory collection installed there has proved very attractive. Short accounts are given in the Report of the progress in each of tho five divisions: industrial machinery and manufactures, mechanical and civil engineering, air and water transport, mathematics, astronomy and chemistry, physics and geophysics, and it is quite evident that the delay in reconstructing tho central block is a serious obstacle in the way of a more instructive display of the material now crowded into inadequate cases. The Science Library now possesses a quarter of a million books, and nearly 50,000 readers have made use of them. The free space for new books is nearly exhausted and temporary housing will have to be provided until the central block becomes available.
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The Science Museum. Nature 136, 255 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136255b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136255b0