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IN a lecture delivered recently before a joint meeting of the Royal Society of Arts and the India Society by Mr. J. de La Valette (see NATURE, Dec. 25, p. 1108) attention was directed to the work of the museums of Holland in promoting the study of the indigenous cultures of the Dutch possessions in Indonesia, and their aim of making familiar to the Dutch people the conditions of native life in these remote parts of the world, for the administration of which they themselves are ultimately responsible. In its broader aspect the problem with which those who have organized these museums have been confronted is one obviously of special interest to Great Britain, where there is a like need for general understanding of alien peoples and cultures under one and the same imperium, but on a vastly extended scale.
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Ethnographical Museums and Empire. Nature 141, 177–179 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141177a0
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