GIFT TO NATION.
HOW BRITISH MUSEUM STARTED. Sir Hans Sloane, a great London doctor of the first half of the eighteenth century, made a great fortune,-which he spent generously in supporting hospitals. ITe collected manuscripts, books and scientific specimens, and left all to the British nation, conditionally that .£20,000 was paid for things which had cost him' £50,000. In 1753 Parliament passed a bill' to accept this gift, and tha great Sloane collection made the beginning of the British Museum. Sir Hans was one of the most active men of_ science of his time. He succeeded Sir Isaac Newton as president of the Royal Society for the Advancement of Science. As a famous doctor he practised in Bloomsbury Square, close by what is now the British Museum. Much of his wealth was invested in London, in the parts now calied. after him—Sloane Street, Sloane Square a,nd Hans ; Place.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 19
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182GIFT TO NATION. Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 19
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