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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo14amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE STORY OF MUSEUM GROUPS standard sizes, assembled along the side of a large hall. The collection, which was begun not far from 1858, was be- cjueathed to the town of Brighton in 1890, and is known as the Booth Mu- seum, and we earnestly hope that it may endure for many years to come. Montagu Brown of Leicester adopted the methods of Mr. Booth and a little later, through the instrumentality of R. Bowdler Sharpe, the first small " habitat group" of the coot was installed in the British Museum. Now it is rather interesting to note that some naturalists who are best known by their scientific work, and are usually regarded l)y the public as being of the dry-as-dust type, were among the earliest advocates of naturalistic methods in museum exhibits. Thus, to Dr. Sharpe, whose enduring monument is the British Museum Cata- logue of Birds, and to Dr. Gunther, best known for his systematic work on fishes, we are indebted for the introduction of groups into a great public museum and for obtaining for them the recogni- tion of a scientific institution of long standing. The installation of bird groups in the British Museum made good progress under the administration of Sir William Flower, who took especial interest in the
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R. BOWDLER SHARPE Under whose auspices the first of the bird groups was installed in the British Museum

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