. The Pharmaceutical era . een the birthplace?of the Science of Paleontology, for was it not here thatthe great Cuvier found the confused mass of bones outof which he patiently constructed the monsters of theantediluvian epoch- Prof. Gaudry has made this col-lection (on the first floor) very striking, the giganticMammoth (Elephas Meridionalis) found in the Gard•(France), the Paleotherium from Choisy, near Paris, andother specimens from Amer-ica and all parts of the?world. One cannot help thinkinghow ^primeval man man-aged to exist alongside ofsuch uncomfortable neigh-bors, as one mounts to the
. The Pharmaceutical era . een the birthplace?of the Science of Paleontology, for was it not here thatthe great Cuvier found the confused mass of bones outof which he patiently constructed the monsters of theantediluvian epoch- Prof. Gaudry has made this col-lection (on the first floor) very striking, the giganticMammoth (Elephas Meridionalis) found in the Gard•(France), the Paleotherium from Choisy, near Paris, andother specimens from Amer-ica and all parts of the?world. One cannot help thinkinghow ^primeval man man-aged to exist alongside ofsuch uncomfortable neigh-bors, as one mounts to the topfloor, the AnthropologicalSection. Prof. Hamy hasspared no means of illus-11 ating the human race ofpvery age in every , skuUs, models,urawings, photos, mummies,dolls, nothing which can at-tord documentary evidenceis lacking. This collection ofmodels of heads of Red In-daans is from the Smithson-ian Institution; yonder as-semblage of Oceanic Island-ers from the German Mu-seum, these figures of Hin-. ENTRANCE ANATOMICALMUSEUM. ^oos evidently of British origin. Before leaving the Jardin des Plantes Ttto Historical Trees Still older is the pseudo-acacia, propped up by bars ofiron, which dates from 1636, when the garden was is only one other tree so old as this in the City ofParis. Another object of interest is the house once inhabited by Baron Cuvier, the Space forbids any description ot the other may just advise lovers of old pottery and porcelainto inspect the Chinese and Japanese specimens at theGuimet Museum of Oriental Art and Religion. M. Guimetis a chemical manufacturer, and is president of the His-torical Section in the Chemical Industries Group of the1!KX) Exposition. There is a unique collection of olddrug pots at the Central Hospital Pharmacy, of whichProf. Prunier, of the Paris School of Pharmacy, is di-rector. Just outside Paris is the Sevres PorcelainMuseum, where M. Garnier (who, like, M. Guimet, is a
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