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coloured casts of the upper part of the body, or the 

 head and neck alone, specimens of the hair, skulls, 

 skeletons, etc. 



In addition to these is a series of photographs of 

 heads enlarged to natural size, and including, whenever 

 possible, a full face and a profile view of each individual 

 represented. Flower took great interest in these 

 photographs (as in the anthropological series generally), 

 and made several experiments before finally deciding as 

 to the scale to which they were to be enlarged. As 

 facilities for photographing in the museum itself were at 

 the time very limited, Flower enlisted the assistance of 

 Dr. H. O. Forbes, Director of the Liverpool Museums, 

 who entered enthusiastically into the project, and under 

 whose superintendence the great majority of the repro- 

 ductions from photographs now exhibited was pro- 

 duced ; the arrangement being that Liverpool should 

 have a copy of every photograph forwarded for 

 reproduction. 



The races of mankind were arranged in the gallery 

 according to Flower's own scheme, fuller reference to 

 which is made elsewhere in the present volume. Flower 

 himself did not survive long enough to see the arrange- 

 ment he had plotted out fully installed. Of late years, 

 although some progress has been made in this direction, 

 the series of coloured casts of the various human races 

 has not increased so rapidly as Flower had hoped they 

 would ; but, nevertheless, a fairly representative series 

 had been brought together, and there is, at present, 

 ample space for additions when opportunities of acquiring 

 new specimens occur. It should be added that Flower 

 inaugurated the plan of making a collection of photo- 



