Essays on museums
by William Henry Flower
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About this eBook
- Author
- Flower, William Henry, 1831-1899
- Title
- Essays on museums : and other subjects connected with natural history
- Original Publication
- London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1898.
- Credits
- Chuck Greif & The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Natural history museums
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 79742
- Release Date
- October 7, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.ESSAYS ON MUSEUMS
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.MUSEUMS — I MUSEUM ORGANISATION [1] — II MODERN MUSEUMS [2] — III LOCAL MUSEUMS [7] — IV SCHOOL MUSEUMS [8] — V BOYS’ MUSEUMS [9] — VI ADDRESS AT THE OPENING OF THE BOOTH MUSEUM AT BRIGHTON [10] — VII THE MUSEUM OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND [11]
- 5.GENERAL BIOLOGY — VIII INTRODUCTORY LECTURE TO THE COURSE OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY [15] — IX RECENT ADVANCES IN NATURAL SCIENCE IN RELATION TO THE CHRISTIAN FAITH [28] — X A PRACTICAL LESSON FROM BIOLOGICAL STUDIES [29] — XI ON PALÆONTOLOGICAL EVIDENCE OF GRADUAL MODIFICATION OF ANIMAL FORMS [30] — XII A CENTURY’S PROGRESS IN ZOOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE [31] — XIII THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON [32] — XIV WHALES, AND BRITISH AND COLONIAL WHALE FISHERIES [34] — XV ON WHALES, PAST AND PRESENT, AND THEIR PROBABLE ORIGIN [37]
- 6.ANTHROPOLOGY — XVI PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY [39] — XVII PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE SECTION OF ANTHROPOLOGY [43] — XVIII ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE VARIETIES OF THE HUMAN SPECIES [44] — XIX THE PYGMY RACES OF MEN [47] — XX FASHION IN DEFORMITY
- 7.BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES — XXI BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF PROFESSOR ROLLESTON [82] — XXII BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE OF SIR RICHARD OWEN [83] — XXIII REMINISCENCES OF PROFESSOR HUXLEY [86] — XXIV EULOGIUM ON CHARLES DARWIN [87]
- 8.BOOKS FOR — FOOTNOTES:
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