overcrowded, and agitation for more space began as early as 1895. 
Construction of the Victoria Memorial Museum was begun in 1904 
and completed in 1911. Although clearly understood to be for the 
Geological Survey and its Museum, the new building was looked upon 
by some other scientific agencies of the government as available for 
their occupancy. R. W. Brock, Director of the Geological Survey at 
Fig. 2. Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863-1919). As Vertebrate Palaeontologist 
of the Geological Survey of Canada, he directed the assembling of the National 
Museum’s great collection of Canadian dinosaurs. 
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