Genre:

Regular Feature, Reportage, Drollery

Subjects:

Museums, Collecting, Natural History, Taxonomy, Government

    Discusses a parliamentary debate about the British Museum in which William H Gregory attacked Richard Owen's plans for a 'separate asylum for Natural History'. Austen H Layard and Richard M Milnes criticised the museum's poor classification of objects and its congestion respectively, but 'Peelides' supported Owen's plans. (43)