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the best of museum taxidermists. Yet even 

 these are but a beginning; as the evolutionary 

 mode of presentment increasingly dominates 

 our collections, as already in the ''Phyletic 

 Museum' 1 which has been so appropriately 

 established as the Haeckel memorial at Jena, 

 or in the central hall of the Natural History 

 Museum in London, our galleries will in- 

 creasingly develop their panoramic renewal 

 of the forms of life throughout their evolution, 

 and will thus express the record of the 

 palaeontologist as a wonderland for the child 

 whose continual interest in strange beasts, 

 a delight thrilled with terror, is perhaps itself 

 a survival and a recapitulation of the past 

 mental experience of our race. 



