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...Kitty Hawk, N. C., on Dec. 17, 1903. For more than 20 years, the machine they used has been faithfully guarded, kept intact. Last week, Orville, the surviving brother,* announced that he was presenting this relic of man's first flight to the Science Museum at South Kensington, London, where a large collection of historic planes and engines already exists. Mr. Wright naturally seeks greater safety against damage and fire than his own home affords. But why a foreign museum ? Why not the Smithsonian Institution in Washington...
...Author. David Garnett, born 1893, first studied Science, spent five years in the Botanical Laboratories at South Kensington, then turned to writing, opened a bookshop. His book Lady into Fox won the Hawthornden Prize for the finest imaginative work of the past year. Married, he has one child...
With their two sons, Herbert and Allan, the Hoovers lived for several years in England. Their house in Kensington was a rendezvous for interesting Americans. She was active in Belgian relief work, was President of the Girl Scouts in 1923, and is vitally interested in all educational enterprises. More talkative than her husband, she once said: "If you want to get the gloomiest view of any subject on earth, ask Bert about...
...Spinks (Piccadilly medal dealers) for disposal. A man, who refused to divulge his name, bought the medals as an act of friendship and appreciation of Sir John's great services to the nation and returned them to Lady Cowans on condition that she bequeath them to the South Kensington Museum or the United Services Institution...
...fourth century, from which is the consular diptych of Rufus Probianus. There are also diptychs of Flavius Asturius (fifth century), Areobindus (sixth century), the fifth century Byzantine diptych of an archangel in the British Museum, the front cover of the Psalter of Charles the Bald (ninth century), the South Kensington plate of Mary between Isaiah and Melchisedek (ninth century), a tenth century Holy Water vessel from Milan Cathedral, the Tutilo panel of the Book of Gospels from St. Gall, the Quedlinburg reliquary ascribed to King Henry the Fowler (tenth century), the comb of St. Heribert of Cologne (tenth to 11th...