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the best of museum taxidermists. Yet even 

 these are but a beginning; as the evolutionary 

 mode of presentment increasingly dominates 

 our collections, as already in the "Phyletic 

 Museum" which has been so appropriately 

 established as the Haeckel memorial at Jena, 

 or in the central hall of the Natural History 

 Museum in London, our galleries will in- 

 creasingly develop their panoramic renewal 

 of the forms of life throughout their evolution, 

 and will thus express the record of the 

 palaeontologist as a wonderland for the child 

 whose continual interest in strange beasts, 

 a delight thrilled with terror, is perhaps itself 

 a survival and a recapitulation of the past 

 mental experience of our race. 



