The New Museum of Natural History

Abstract

THE new Natural History Museum, opened on Easter Monday, was visited by some 16,000 people of a most orderly and respectable class. Owing to the great exertions of Dr. Woodward, whose zeal is beyond praise, the main gallery, the Pavilion, and the Gallery of Reptiles were shown in a practically completed state. The Mineral Gallery has long been ready, but the arrangement of the botanical section is still incomplete, and it was entirely closed. Some little trouble was caused with the umbrellas, and it might be worth while to consider whether, except perhaps in wet weather, the umbrellas need be taken away. The idea that people poke with sticks at objects in museums has been long exploded, and no inconvenience is felt at the Kensington Museum, the Louvre, and nearly all foreign galleries and exhibitions, where umbrellas are admitted.