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| At this time exhibitions at the NHM were the preserve of the scientific department that the collections were divided into.
Flower as Director took as his own the main hall to realize Richard Owen’s vision of an 'index museum'. A series of exhibits were installed to introduce the more specialized galleries around the Musuem. These reflected the departments, then consisting of Botany, Geology, Mineralogy and Zoology. Now comprising Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology |