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THE Trustees of the British Museum announce the closing of the exhibition of the game animals of the British Empire in the New Whale Gallery at the Natural History Museum on March 19. As, owing to the financial stringency, it was impracticable to begin last year the removal of the exhibited specimens, of whales to their new quarters, the Trustees decided to use the space available for the temporary exhibition of the game animals, grouped by the three great faunal regions in which they occur and arranged without glazed cases. Unhappily the skins are attractive to moths; it would therefore be risky to leave the specimens exposed when the moths begin to fly in spite of the daily dusting which these skins receive, and they will be returned to their cases before the end of the month. Capt. Guy Dollman, who was responsible for the arrangement of the exhibition, will talk in the New Whale Gallery about the animals in the three great faunal regions at 11.30 on March 4, Indo-Malaya; March 11, Africa; March 18, Canda and Newfoundland. Visitors will be admitted free.
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Game Anismals in the British Museum (Natural History). Nature 131, 301 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131301b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131301b0