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Museum Reform
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Museum Reform

  • ARTHUR WM. WATERS1 

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I SEE with pleasure that Prof. Boyd Dawkins has again raised his voice urging the importance of museums as a means of education, but as there is one point regarding their management to which it may be useful to call attention, I shall be glad if you will allow me to do so through your pages.

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