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Natural History Museums

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WHILE admiring and agreeing with the main features of Dr. P. L. Sclater's plan for the exhibition of the National Natural History collections in the new Museum at Kensington, I must beg to be allowed to enter a protest with regard to the geological portion of the scheme, which was all but completely overlooked by those who took part in the discussion of his suggestions and by Dr. Sclater himself.

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LEBOUR, G. Natural History Museums. Nature 2, 493 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/002493a0

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