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THE galleries of fossil reptiles, fishes and plants in the Geological Department of the British Museum (Natural History) will be re-opened to the public on October 11. Most of the skeletons of the larger fossil animals had been dismantled and packed away in 1939, while others which could not be moved suffered damage during the War. The re-assembling and repair of all these specimens is still in progress ; but the work is now sufficiently advanced to permit visitors to see once more the dinosaurs, the plesiosaurs and the ichthyosaurs. In the fossil fish gallery there is a series of dioramas of the fish-life of various geological periods from the Devonian onwards, and in Gallery VII there is a special exhibit illustrating the early history of palæontology. The rearrangement of the fossil plant gallery is not yet complete, but the student will find an adequate series of specimens exemplifying the plant life of the past.
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British Museum (Natural History). Nature 162, 564 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162564a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162564a0