It is stated, but we hope not truly, that one
of the Staff of the British Museum, a member of the Printed Book Department, Mr. Warren, when attacked some time ago by an illness which pointed -to the bad ventilation of the room in which he was employed, took his physician, at that physician's own request, into the room where he worked ; and that on reporting to his superior this gentleman's opinion that the air of the room was quite unfit to live in, he only got a reprimand from his chief for introducing a medical man without express leave to do so. The story goes on to say that the evil was not remedied, and that Mr. Warren's death, which has now occurred, is probably partly due to the unwhole- someness of the room in which he was compelled to work. If the story be not true, the Chief Librarian should at once expose its falsehood ; if it is true, there must be something very wrong about the government of the Library Department, and what is wrong ought at once to be set right.
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