Natural History Museums: Museums and Libraries.—The Museum of the Province of Quebec, containing the provincial archives, as well as natural history museums history and arts sections, is located in Battlefield Park (the Plains of Abraham) in Quebec City. Nearby, in the Quebec City Citadel, there is a military museum maintained by the federal government. There are military and historical museums at Fort Chambly, at Chambly, and at Fort Lennox, on the lie aux Noix, while numerous museums, including the Chateau de Ramezay historical museum and the McGill University museum, are in Montreal. Quebec has many notable college and university libraries, including the great collections of Laval, McGill, and Montreal universities, as well as numerous special libraries.
A city of tall, modern structures as well as 1 ones, its cathedral was completed in 1619, stroyed by earthquake, and rebuilt. The vol-lic arc of the Andes has visited several earth-akes on the city. Other notable buildings include the congressional and presidential palaces, the museums of fine arts, history, and the natural history museums sciences, and the national library.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, was founded at Cambridge, Mass., in 1636. As organized in the late 1960's, Harvard University comprises 17 *l>arate departments of enrollment, administered by 9 faculties. Allied with these schools and (acuities are 95 libraries, 7 botanical institutions, 1 astronomical stations, more than 50 laboratories of science, engineering, and medicine, 9 museums of natural history museums history, medicine, art, and archaeology, and numerous committees, hospitals, clinics, and foundations devoted to advanced study and systematic research. |