The Archive · 1939

French Envoy Opens Museum

"Musee Heude" Celebrates Seventieth Anniversary With New Exhibits The French Ambassador, M. Hour! Cosme, inaugurated a new exhibition hall in the "Musée Heude" on the grounds of Aurora University, 223 yesterday afternoon at Yesterday marked the seventieth anniversary of this institution which was located, until 1930, in Siccawei. welcoming the Ambassador, Father Piel, present director of the museum, gave a short speech in which he referred to ihe deep debt of gratitude all those at present connected with the museum owe to its founder, Father Heude, who began the present museum with a small collection of specimens he had gathered himself, augmented by the gifts of various missionaries and residents of China who were interested in his work. Father Piel

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