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British Museum (Natural History) General Guide

Note 3 — GENERAL ARRANGEMENT.

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Palæontology, 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.

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