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besides the ''teaching" or graphic exhibition he 

 had also to consider the accumulation and arrange- 

 ment of that enormous stock of reference specimens 

 which are needed, not to teach the public, but for 

 scientific ornithologists, entomologists, or other 

 naturalists to study. The collections were very- 

 large and important, for Owen, while not trying to 

 enforce his own ideas on those in control of the 

 departments and sections as to arrangement, steadily 

 aided and encouraged acquisitions by and from all 

 sources which he could reach or influence. In 

 addition to the Zoological departments, there were 

 also housed in South Kensington the mineralogical, 

 botanical, and geological collections from the British 

 Museum. Among these were and are many separate 

 collections made by men of mark. It may be 

 remembered that when Darwin came back from his 

 voyage on the Beagle he found that though others 

 did not care for his collection, Owen and Lyell gave 

 him every encouragement. Among the Zoological 

 collections transferred to South Kensington were 

 the magnificent series of birds' skins brought from 

 the Malay Archipelago by Wallace after his 

 sojourn there, with the accounts of which he has 

 delighted untold numbers of readers. Gould's 

 humming birds are still one of the attractions of 

 the galleries. In the Botanical department was the 

 herbarium of Sir Hans Sloane, containing 8000 

 specimens, the great botanical collection of Sir Joseph 

 Banks, and William Wilson's herbarium of British 



