The Science Museum and the Tate Gallery.

Abstract

THE men of science of this country owe a deep debt of gratitude to Mr. Goschen. As a result of his careful inquiry into the questions raised by the suggested use, for Mr. Tate's gallery, of land bought for scientific purposes, he has decided that the scientific claim must hold good. It is impossible to over-estimate the importance of this decision. Had it been otherwise, the possibility of establishing in London an institution which should be for Science what the National Gallery is for Art and the British Museum Library for Literature would have been wrecked for a generation.