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obituary notice of Owen quoted with approval a 

 statement of the great anatomist to the effect that no 

 collection of zoology could in any way be regarded 

 as complete without a large amount of space being 

 devoted to the display of the physical characteristics of 

 the various races of the human species. " The series of 

 zoology would lack its most important feature were the 

 illustrations of the physical characters of the human 

 race omitted." Such a series, thought Owen in 1862, 

 would require a gallery of something like 150 feet in 

 length, by 50 feet in width, for its proper display. 

 Stuffed specimens being, of course, out of the question, 

 the series was to include *' casts of the entire body, 

 coloured after life, of characteristic parts, as the head 

 and face, skeletons of every variety arranged side by 

 side for facility of comparison, the hair preserved in 

 spirit, showing its characteristic sign and distinctive 

 structures, etc." Had photography been in anything 

 like its present advanced position in 1862, no doubt its 

 aid would have been claimed in illustrating the various 

 racial types of the human species. 



A gallery of anything like the dimensions required by 

 Owen was quite out of the question when Flower 

 planned the addition of an anthropological section to the 

 mammalian series, but one-half of the portion of the 

 upper mammal gallery now open to the public was 

 reserved for this purpose, so that man took his proper 

 place in the zoological series immediately after the 

 gorilla, chimpanzee, and the other man-like apes, which, 

 in their turn, were preceded by the lower types of 

 monkey. In the main, the specimens exhibited in this 

 series follow on the lines suggested by Owen, including 



