Following the sudden death of the architect originally appointed to design the Natural History Museum, Alfred Waterhouse ... to incorporate living and extinct animals into the architectural details of ...
The Museum first opened its doors on 18 April 1881, but its origins stretch back to 1753 and the career of Sir Hans Sloane, a doctor and collector. Sloane travelled the world as a high society ...
THE progress which Natural ... at Oxford within the last few years has far exceeded the anticipations of even the most sanguine of its promoters. It is but ten years ago that the New Museum ...