1The Trustees under the Act of Incorporation were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Bishop of London, and the principal Officers of State for the time being; six representatives of Founders’ families; the Presidents of the Royal Society and College of Physicians; and fifteen other Trustees to be elected by them. Subsequently, the Presidents of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Academy of Arts, a Trustee by special nomination of the Sovereign, and three more family Trustees were added to the Board.

2In judging the appearance of the exterior of the building, it should be remembered that these fronts are required to complete the design, as the externally unsightly brick galleries which run back from the main front, and are now conspicuous when the Museum is seen from either west or east, are intended to be concealed by them (see Frontispiece).

3PalÆontology, or the study of fossil animals and plants, would have been a more appropriate designation, as Geology, the science which investigates the history of the earth, and the changes which its surface has undergone in attaining its present condition, has a much wider scope.

4For conditions as to admission and regulation, see p. 119.

5In the homoeodont type the teeth are alike, in the heterodont they are divided into groups.

6See Special Guide, price 6d.

7See Special Guide, price 1s.

8See Special Guides, price respectively 2s. 6d., 6d., 4d.

9See Special Guide, price 1s.

10See Special Guide, price 1s.

11See Special Guide, price 1s.

12See Special Guide, price 1s.

13See Special Guide, price 6d.

14See Special Guide, price 6d.

15See Special Guide, price 6d.

16“Guide to the Whales, Porpoises, and Dolphins exhibited in the Department of Zoology.” Price 4d.

17“Guide to the Galleries of Mammals,” (6d.); “Guide to Great Game Animals (Ungulata),” (1s.); and “Guide to the Horse Family,” (1s.).

18See “Guide to the Specimens Illustrating the Races of Mankind (Anthropology).” Price 4d.

19“Guide to the Fossil Mammals and Birds,” price 6d.; “Guide to the Fossil Reptiles, Amphibians, and Fishes,” price 9d.; and “Guide to the Fossil Invertebrate Animals,” price 1s.

20See “Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil).” Price 6d.

21“Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 1d. “Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral Gallery.” Price 6d.

22“Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Guide to the Museum Collection.” Price 1s.

23“The Student’s Index to the Collection of Minerals.” Price 2d.

24Catalogue of a series of specimens illustrative of the more common forms of Native Silica. By John Ruskin, F.G.S., 1884. Price 1s.

25See “An Introduction to the Study of Meteorites, with a List of the Meteorites represented in the Collection.” Price 6d.

26“Books and portraits illustrating the History of Plant Classification exhibited in the Department of Botany.” Price 4d.

27“Guide to Sowerby’s Models of British Fungi.” Price 4d.

28“Guide to the British Mycetozoa.” Price 3d.

29A “List of British Seed-plants and Ferns” has been drawn up in the form of a Guide. Price 4d.

30“Guide to Mr. Worthington Smith’s Drawings of Field and Cultivated Mushrooms and Poisonous or Worthless Fungi, often mistaken for Mushrooms.” With reduced reproduction of the drawings. Price 1s.

31Note.—The plates may be had separately in one sheet mounted on linen and varnished. Price 1s., or 1s. 2d. post free.