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Report of a Journey Around tlie World. 



87. UPPER HALL OP THE PARIS MUSEUM OE NATURAL HISTORY. 



PARIS MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, GROUND FLOOR. 



and some of the collecftions had been already tran.sferred, but the 

 cast of the Hottentot "Venus" still gathered its crowds, and enough 

 remained to arouse great interest ; so it was with no little dis- 

 appointment that we turned away from the closed doors of the new 

 museum, and we fared no better when we came to the botanical 

 colle<5lion, which contains among other treasures the plants col- 

 lected on the Hawaiian Islands by M. Jules Remy, as that was 



also closed and no one could be found to open it on that day. 



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