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The Birmingham Mechanics’ Institution ON December 17, 1839, an exhibition was held at the Mechanics’ Institution in Birmingham and a correspondent wrote to the Athenœum, “It contains more than one hundred thousand articles arranged very tastefully in the rooms belonging to the Institution. Ornithology is the richest department in Natural History: there is a very perfect collection of British birds belonging to Dr. Lloyd; and a beautiful collection of the varieties of humming bird, prepared by Mr. Heywood, a mechanic of Coventry, who devotes his leisure hours to the cultivation of Natural History. . . . The departments of Geology, Mineralogy, and Crystallography are rich, but not extensive. . . . The models of engines, machinery, etc., are not so numerous as they were in the Grammar School during the visit of the British Association, but among them are some articles which were not then displayed, especially some lathes of admirable construction and great power."
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 144, 1024 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/1441024a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1441024a0