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National Museum with antlii'op()lo<^ical, /.oolof^ical, lK)tanical, niineral- 

 ogical, and geological collection.s in one organization, together with a 

 large additional department of arts and industries, or technology. 



Passing to specialized natural history collections, perhaps the most 

 noteworthy are those devoted to zoology, and chief among them that 

 in our own American Cambridge. The Museum of Comparative Zool- 

 ogy-, founded by the Agassizes "to illustrate the history of creation, 

 as far as the present state of knowledge reveals that history," w'as in 

 1887 pronounced by the English naturalist, Alfred Russell Wallace, "to 

 be far in advance of similar institutions in Europe as an educational 

 institution, whether as regards the general public, the private student, 

 or the specialist. ' ' 



Next to Cambridge, after the zoological section of the museums of 

 London and Paris, stands the collections in the Imperial Cabinet in 

 Vienna, and those of the zoological museums in Berlin, L,eydeu, Copen- 

 hagen, and Christiania. 



Among botanical museums, that in the Royal Gardens at Kew, near 

 London, is preeminent, with its colossal herbarium, containing the finest 

 collection in the world, and its special nmseuni of economic botain', 

 founded in 1847, both standing in the midst of a collection of living 

 plants. There is also in Berlin the Royal Botanical Museum, founded 

 in 1 8 18 as the Royal Herbarium; in St. Petensburg, the Herbaria of the 

 Imperial Botanical Garden. 



Among the geological and mineralogical collections the mineral cabinet 

 in Vienna, arranged in the imperial castle, is among the first. 



The Museum of Practical Geology in London, which is attached to 

 the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, was founded in 1837, to 

 exhibit the collections of the survey, in order to "show the applications 

 of geology to the useful purposes of life. ' ' Like every other healthy 

 museum, it soon had investigations in progress in connection with its 

 educational work, and many very important discoveries ha^'e l)een made 

 in its laboratories. It stands in the very first rank of museums for poj - 

 ular instruction, the arrangement of the exhibition halls being most 

 admirable. Of mu.seums of anatomy there are thirty of considerable 

 magnitude, all of which have grown up in connection with schools of 

 medicine and surgery, except the magnificent Army Medical Museum in 

 Washington. 



The Medical Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in London is 

 probably first in importance. The collections of vSt. Thomas's, Gu3''s, 

 St. George's, and other hospitals are very rich in anatomical and patho- 

 logical specimens. The oldest public anatomical museum in London is 

 that of St. Bartholomew's. 



Paris, Edinburgh, and Dublin have large anatomical and materia 

 medica collections. As a rule, the medical museums of P^urope are con- 

 nected with iniiversities. Doctor Billings, curator of the Army Medical 

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