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tions at Craig's Court not only found now a worthier 

 domicile, but they were augmented by many speci- 

 mens, which, for want of room, could not previously 

 be exhibited. 



But in keeping the practical application of geology 

 before the eyes of the public, the claims of pure 

 science were not lost sight of or held in the back- 

 ground. A fine assemblage of fossils which the 

 Geological Survey had gradually been amassing was 

 now arranged in due stratigraphical order. The 

 visitor in walking round the galleries had before him 

 the characteristic plants and animals of each great 

 period of geological time, all properly named and 

 grouped. He could thus, text-book in hand, study 

 the fauna and flora of any particular geological period 

 with a fulness and ease never before attainable. Geo- 

 logical maps of different parts of Britain were 

 suspended for reference. Every effort was thus made 

 to ensure that for purposes of serious study the 

 Museum should be as useful as possible. By this 

 combination of the systematic and the practical it 

 was believed that an important step was taken in the 

 development of geological science. 



But the Jermyn Street Museum only carried out 

 more fully and with ampler space what had been 

 already attempted in the more restricted quarters of 

 Craig's Court. Though the giving of lectures in con- 

 nection with the Museum had been sanctioned as far 

 back as 1839, the want of proper accommodation had 

 prevented this design from ever being put into execu- 

 tion. But there was now the possibility of better 

 things, and the great new departure in the organisa- 

 tion was the creation of a special teaching staff and 

 the establishment of a definite curriculum of scientific 



