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FEW even of the. habitue's of the Natural History Museum have any adequate idea of the extent and value of the collection of books on natural history (in its widest sense) subjects contained within its walls. Nor is this difficult to account for. Owing to the exigencies of work, the collection is split up into a zoological, a geological, a mineralogical, a botanical, and a general library, the latter containing all those works which treat of subjects belonging to more than one department of the museum. But even this subdivision by no means expresses the real facts of the case, the various departmental libraries being further divided into subsections. For instance, the bird room, the spirit building, the -entomological department have each libraries of their own, while even individual officers who have charge of one group of animals possess a collection of books in their own rooms.
Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History).
Vol. i., A—D. Pp. 500. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1903.)
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L., R. Catalogue of Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) . Nature 68, 596 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/068596a0
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