DOMINION NEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 135, 10 June 1938, Page 9

DOMINION NEED.

NEW TYPE OF MUSEUM. MEDICAL SCIENCE PROGRESS. "There is much to be done in New Zealand and Australia in building up a collection of material to illustrate the historical aspects of medical work," said Professor J. B. Cleland. professor of pathology in the University •of Adelaide, who was a through passenger by the Mariposa, which arrived from San Francisco this morning. While in London he was impressed by the value of the Wellcome Museum, which, he said, contained one of the finest displays in the world of exhibits illustrating aspects of medical work from the earliest periods down to the present day. The latest niethTxts of controlling diseases, particularly tropical maladies, were graphically shown, and the museum was much visited by medical men, nurses who were going to tropic countries, missionaries and students. By the use or pictorial methods and miniature panoramas, the museum, while designed especially to serve the needs of medical science, was of interest to people who had no medical training, and revealed the remarkable advance-- made in dealing with disease. Professor Cleland remarked that the Xew Zealand medical school at Dunedin had an excellent pathological museum, ' and there were a number of valuable | collections in Australia, but an instij tut ion similar in type to the Wellcome Klu.-eum would fill a definite need in ! Dominions.