Flower went further still to employ this material by allowing comparative study:
“Another principle which he often insisted upon...was that in public galleries the visitor should see, side by side, the stuffed or other wise preserved animal (mammal, bird, reptile, fish, mollusc, insect, worm or polyp) and its skeleton and important parts of its internal structure and the remains of its extinct allies” 3
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3 p75/6 [ch7 The first director: William Henry Flower 1884-1898] The Natural History Museum, William Stearn. NHM [1999]