GENERAL GUIDE 
TO 
THE BEITISH MUSEUM 
(NATURAL HISTORY). 
DESCEIPTION OF THE MUSEUM AND ITS COOTENTS. 
On entering the Miisenm, the visitor must bear in mind that the 
principal front faces the south, so that he wdll be looking clue 
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 in the positions of some of 
the specimens from those here given. 
The Centeal Hall. 
On entering the hall the visitor will notice the bronze statue of statues and 
the late Sir Eichard Owen, K.C.B., Superintendent of the Xatural centiaiVaii. 
History Departments of the British Museum (18-56-1884;. 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 
Ford, 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. 
Flower, Director of the Xatural 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. 
