GENERAL GUIDE 



TO 



THE BEITISH MUSEUM 



(NATURAL HISTORY). 



DESCEIPTION OF THE MUSEUM AND ITS CONTENTS. 



On entering the Museum, the visitor must bear in mind that the 

 principal front faces the south, so that he will be looking due 

 north, with the east on his right, and the west on his left hand. 

 It must also not be forgotten that a museum in a state of 

 active growth is continually receiving additions as well as 

 undergoing changes in the arrangement of its contents, and since 

 these often occur faster than new editions of the Guide can be 

 produced, there may be variations iu the positions of some of 

 the specimens from those here given. 



The Central Hall. 



On entering the hall the visitor will notice the bronze statue of statues and 

 the late Sir Eichard Owen, K-CB., Superintendent of the Natural cent^aiV^ii. 

 History Departments of the British Museum (1856-1884). It is 

 the work of Mr. T. Brock, E.A., and was placed in the Museum 

 on March 17th, 1897. To the right of this is a marble statue of 

 the late Professor T. H. Huxley, sculptured by Mr. E. Onslow 

 Eord, E.A., which was unveiled on April 28th, 1900. In the 

 first bay on the left is a bust, by Mr. Brock, of the late Sir W. H. 

 Elower, Director of the Natural History Departments of the 

 British Museum from 1884 to 1898. Most of the cases placed 

 on the floor of the hall illustrate general laws or points of interest 

 in natural history which do not come appropriately within the 

 systematic collections of the departmental series. 



