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Now that the new Natural History Museum is approaching completion, will you allow me to call attention to a need which has probably been felt by others beside myself, and which we may hope will be met in the new institution? This is a museum or collection of varieties of plants and animals produced by domestication. I need not enlarge upon the value of such a collection to the student of biology. The revolution in the philosophy of biology created by Mr. Darwin was founded upon an examination of such varieties, and I have small doubt that my plea will be seconded by botanists and zoologists who will speak with much greater authority than I can.
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HOWORTH, H. Proposed New Museum. Nature 16, 266 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016266b0
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