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Article: Uproar at the aviary; London's Learned Societies.(Burlington House occupants)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2007
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But now all is at peace, with much billing and cooing
IT IS quite a feat to be invisible while occupying substantial buildings in central London flanking the Royal Academy of Arts. But that's just what the Linnean Society, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Geological Society of London, the Society of Antiquaries of London and the Royal Astronomical Society managed to do for nearly a century. Then, in 2004, Her Majesty's Government not only noticed but also questioned their right to remain at Burlington House, as the complex is called. To the Learned Societies this may have seemed a bitter irony. In 1857, the government of a previous queen had built Burlington ...