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MAY I ask when the “common people” Mr. R. B. Sharpe speaks of in your issue of February 20, will “have the opportunity to read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest what the Museum is trying to teach”? As regards the Bird Gallery, the “opportunity” seems to be no nearer than it was fourteen years ago. Surely there has been time during that period for the preparation of a “guide” for the Bird Gallery, equally with the Shell and various other departments. All the “common people” can learn at present, is the scientific and, in some cases, the popular name of the bird, and its habitat. Among the thousands of species exhibited, there must be many whose history, written in a few lines, as is done with the British specimens in the tablecases, would be both interesting and instructive. I may add that there is no “guide” to the Department of British Zoology.
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S., E. Natural History Museum.—Bird Gallery. Nature 53, 461 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/053461d0
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