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Abstract

WE are pleased to be able to announce that Prof. Flower's title is to be “Director” of the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, not “Superintendent,” as Prof. Owen was styled. According to the Civil Service Estimates for the present financial year his staff consists of four keepers of departments (Botany, Geology, Mineralogy, and Zoology), two assistant keepers (Geology and Zoology), eleven first-class assistants, and fourteen second-class assistants. Large as this number may seem, it is notorious that in the Zoological Department at least a considerable reinforcement is required before the work can be expected to be efficiently performed.