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many years a principal figure at the Museum, 

 was then rapidly increasing in numbers at South 

 Kensington, and it was decided that Mr. Booth's 

 birds should remain at Brighton. Flower went 

 down and opened the institution in the Dyke 

 Road, which is now among the greatest attractions 

 of " London by the Sea." 



Continuing his graphic method in the Great 

 Hall, the case of animals which undergo the 

 change to white in Arctic climates as a form of pro- 

 tection was set up in 1891. In the same year a 

 collection of 24,000 birds' eggs was catalogued and 

 arranged by Mr. Seebohm. Next in order of time 

 to the arrangement of the Arctic animals in the hall 

 followed the well-known case showing the skeletons 

 of man and horse standing side by side, with all the 

 corresponding bones labelled and shown. Flower 

 hoped that among other things this case might be 

 useful to artists who painted horses or their riders. 



In 1895 the large case numbered 11, showing 

 the orders and sub-orders of mammals, the prevail- 

 ing types and their geographical distribution, was 

 begun and carried forward, and the examples of pro- 

 tective mimicry among insects, which have delighted 

 and astonished tens of thousands of visitors since, 

 were begun. These examples, selected from the 

 most striking, beautiful, and almost miraculous 

 instances found by recent discoverers, made perhaps 

 more impression on the ordinary intelligent public 

 than anything yet shown in the Museum, and still 



