BRITISH MUSEUM.
A New Extension. LONDON, June 28. In the presence of Queen Alexandra, the prince and Princess of Wales, and many other notables, the King to-day laid i the foundation-stone of the King Edward Vil. Gallery, forming the first portion of the buildings extending the seriously cramped accommodation of the British Museum. [Almost every decade seems to see some fresh problem springing up as to accommodation for the treasures of the British Museum. This is mostly due to the ever-swelling library, which now reaches the prodigious total of two million volumes, and is increasing at the present rate of 46,000 volumes a year— a number which would make a large library in itself. Temporary alleviation of the space difficulty was effected in 18S0 to ISS3 by the removal of the natural history collections to the special museum in South Kensington, and by the acquisition by purchase in 1895 of the rows of houses -which abut on the Museum on the east, north, and west. With .the new ground, the : total area of the site is-no less-than thirteen acres.]
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1907, Page 5
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179BRITISH MUSEUM. Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 154, 29 June 1907, Page 5
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