. Guide leaflet. SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWERDIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM FROM 1884 TO 1898 Sir Willian Flower probably r. < <. Brown < was an ardenl admirer of Flower and his work in the British Museum THE STORY OF MUSEUM CROUPS. ROBIN REDBREAST GROUP IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM private individuals and they were mainly heterogeneous assemblages ofbright-plumaged birds brought together from the four quarters of theglobe and shown simply because they were pretty. So far as we are aware, the introduction of groups into public mu-seums was due to the influence of an enthusiastic private collecto
. Guide leaflet. SIR WILLIAM HENRY FLOWERDIRECTOR OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM FROM 1884 TO 1898 Sir Willian Flower probably r. < <. Brown < was an ardenl admirer of Flower and his work in the British Museum THE STORY OF MUSEUM CROUPS. ROBIN REDBREAST GROUP IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM private individuals and they were mainly heterogeneous assemblages ofbright-plumaged birds brought together from the four quarters of theglobe and shown simply because they were pretty. So far as we are aware, the introduction of groups into public mu-seums was due to the influence of an enthusiastic private collector, T. Booth, of Brighton, England, who devoted a large part of his lifeto making a collection of British birds, mounted in varied attitudes,with accessories that copied more or less accurately the appearance of thespot where they were taken. As Mr. Booth wrote, the chief objecthas been to endeavor to represent the birds in situations somewhatsimilar to those in which they were obtained, many of the cases, copied from sketches taken on the actual spots where the birds
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