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work-rooms of the Museum, where some new fishes were 

 being drawn, and conversed with the naturalist in charge, 

 and criticised the drawings. He saw everything, 

 appreciated everything, and then looking at his watch, 

 said, " I have only five minutes to get to a lunch party. 

 Thank you very much for the most delightful time. I 

 should like to stay all the day ; it is a splendid place," 

 and was off in his brougham. 



I exhibited the specimens and books sent by his 

 Majesty for some weeks in the Central Hall of the museum, 

 before they were incorporated in the great collection, 

 for I felt that it was a rare and interesting thing that a 

 king should not merely take a sportsman's pleasure in 

 birds, beasts, and fishes, but actually be, so to speak, 

 " one of us " a zoologist who discovers, describes, and 

 names new things. The Prince of Monaco is the only 

 other head of a State who is a serious scientific natural- 

 ist. He has built and endowed a magnificent museum 

 and laboratory at Monaco, where his skilled assistants 

 carry on researches and look after the extremely valuable 

 and important collections which he has himself made in 

 a series of cruises in the Atlantic extending over many 

 years. He has not only employed capable naturalists to 

 help him, but is himself the chief authority and an 

 original discoverer in " oceanography," the science of the 

 great oceans. 



A year or so ago, when Dom Carlos visited Paris, a 

 special fete and reception was organised in his honour at 

 the " Museum d'Histoire Naturelle," in the Jardin des 

 Plantes. The " Museum " of the Jardin des Plantes is 

 a very remarkable institution, including a zoological 

 and botanical garden, laboratories of chemistry, physics, 

 and physiology, besides the great collections of minerals, 

 fossils, skeletons, and preserved specimens of animals and 

 plants. It is governed by the professors and the 

 director who are in charge of the garden, the laboratories, 

 and the collections, and owes its dignity and its celebrity 



