On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History: Including the Substance of a Discourse on that Subject, Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the Evening of Friday, April 26, 1861 by Richard Owen

On the Extent and Aims of a National Museum of Natural History: Including the Substance of a Discourse on that Subject, Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, on the Evening of Friday, April 26, 1861

Richard Owen

146 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

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A significant limitation on the development of zoology, botany and palaeontology in the mid-nineteenth century was the absence of a centralised collection of specimens. Appointed superintendent of the British Museum's natural history departments i...

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