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Report of a Journey Around the World. 



87. UPPER HALT. OF THE PARIS MUSEUM OE NATURAL HISTORY 



PARIS MUSEUM OE NATURAL HISTORY, GROUND FLOOR. 



and some of the collections had been already transferred, but the 

 cast of the Hottentot "Venus" still gathered its crowds, and enough 

 remained to arouse great interest ; so it was with no little dis- 

 appointment that we turned away from the closed doors of the new 

 museum, and we fared no better when we came to the botanical 

 collection, which contains among other treasures the plants col- 

 lected on the Hawaiian Islands by M. Jules Remy, as that was 

 also closed and no one could be found to open it on that day. 



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