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pecially the development of wings, feet, feathers, etc., are pre- 

 sided over b}- a fine statue of Darwin (Fig. 19), while the bust of 

 Sir William H. Flower, who was the moving spirit in the estab- 

 lishment of this new home for the biological collections, is con- 

 spicuous on the main fioor (Fig. 21). The present arrangement 

 of the entrance hall differs from tlie illustration in having the 





18. NATURAL HISTORY :\IUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON. 



skeleton of an elephant in the middle of the fioor. Unfortunately 

 the objectionable architecture of the walls cannot so easily be 

 changed. 



In the Imperial Institute (Fig. 22) the colonial products are 

 arranged partially, and we found a bronze statue of Sir Thomas 

 Stamford Raffles, the great East Indian organizer and ruler of 

 Java, but could obtain no photograph of this, which seems far 

 superior to an\' we found later in the lands where much of his re- 

 markable career was passed. If this inchoate collection could be 

 completely reorganized and quadrupled it would be more worthy 

 the imperial colonies, but at present it has too much the appear- 

 ance of being the debris of some previous great exhibition, while 

 the beautiful collection of Indian work from the former East Indian 



Museum is far too crowded. The scattering of the London collec- 



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