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THE annual repot for 1945 of the Museums Trustees of kenya announces the appointment of Dr. L. S.p: Leakey (upon his release from war duties)to the full-time curatorship of the Coryndon Memorial museum. Dr. Leakey, well known for his work in East African prehistory, has already carried out a great deal of work for this Museum in his capacity first as honorary curator and then as part-time curator. The Curator's report for the same year reports the holding of a Conference of Curators of East African Museums under the chairmanship of Dr. Leakey, and it is hoped that in future this will be an annual event. It was decided that a Federation of East and Central African Museums should be formed and linked with the Museums Association of England and the Empire. The same report makes reference to the possible development of the Museum as Kenya's War Memorial. During the year, the Governor called for suggestions as to what form the Kenya War Memorial should take, and a special committee was appointed to consider schemes sent in. Out of the ninety-eight received, two were selected for a final choice. Of these, one was a scheme for a “Technical College for All Races”, and the other a “Museums Service Extension Scheme”, which was submitted by the curator and by the Executive Committee of the Natural History Society. It will be remembered that Dr. Leakey referred to these proposals in a broadcast on the needs of the East African peoples which he made during a recent visit to Great Britain. He made it clear that so far as the East African native is concerned, the scheme envisaging a technical college is overwhelmingly favoured.
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Coryndon Memorial Museum, Nairobi. Nature 158, 941–942 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158941d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/158941d0