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A NUMBER of bombs, both high explosive and incendiary, have fallen on the Museum premises, and serious fires have occurred in the General Herbarium and the Shell Gallery. Considerable damage was done to the botanical collections, but it will be impossible for some time to arrive at any final conclusion as to the extent of this, since so much depends on the degree of success achieved in the work of salvage and reparation which is still in progress. The greater part of the damage was done by water, and time alone can show how far this is irreparable.
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British Museum (Natural History): Air Raid Damage. Nature 147, 20 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147020c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147020c0