The new museum of natural history
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ABSTRACT MR. WATERHOUSE'S new building at South Kensington has, we believe, been formally handed over to the trustees of the British Museum, and as will be seen by their Report, which
we give in another column, it is in contemplation, or was so at the time the report was drawn up, to remove several portions of the natural history collections on to the new site during the
present year. Up to this time, however, little has been done in the matter. The only beasts and birds to be seen in the new building are those stone images which it has pleased Mr.
Waterhouse to place upon the corbels without and upon the pillars within. It is perhaps only fair that if the inside is devoted to _natural_ history the outside should be similarly devoted
to unnatural history, and architects must have their way. It may also be observed that if the trustees have really taken possession they have sadly neglected their garden department, for the
vacant space round the building, which was nicely laid out last year, has been allowed to become overrun with weeds and rubbish. There are two subjects, we believe, which have caused some
delay in the proposed removal—the questions of the library and of the mode of government of the new institution. The last-named and most important point being, as the Secretary of the
Treasury had stated, still “under the consideration of my Lords,” we will make so bold as to tender them a few words of advice on the former subject which also requires their serious
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