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equipped and suitable science center could offer, and we are putting 
ourselves at considerable, needless disadvantage in our rating with 
other cities. 
The approval in the last bond issue of a planetarium is an in- 
dication of growing interest in things natural and scientific. It is our 
sincere hope that not another hundred years, nor fifty, nor ten, will 
go by without the manifestation of a fitting natural history and 
science museum, as well as a planetarium, for this great city. It 
should be part of the plan of "Forward, St. Louis!" 
Stratford Lee Morton 
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