ural ory Museum in London, built into recesses along t corridors or standing betricuryor so of otive clutter, are secret doors—at least secret in t t to attract tor’s notice. Occasionally you migracted manner and interestingly en doo disappear ttlefurt tively rare event. For t part tay s, giving no t beyond ts anotural ory Museum as vast as, and inmany he public knows and adores.

    tural ory Museum contains some seventy million objects from every realm oflife and every corner of t, o tion eac it is really only be you get a sense of reasure s and long rooms full of close-packed s tens of ttles, millions of insects pinned to squaresof card, dras. It is a little like room alone een miles of saining jar upon jar of animals preserved inmeted spirit.

    Back ed by Josepralia, Alexander von in Amazonia, Dar is eitorically important or boto get tually standing ornition fromtate of a devoted collector named Riczztendee of t daily to take notes for tion of his books and monographs.

    es arrived, tors excitedly jimmied to see  and o put it mildly, to discover t a very large number of specimensbore tz turned out, otions for years. It also explained  of  even duringher.

    A feer a cment—“quite a distinguisleman,” I old—he hollow legs of hisZimmer frame.

    “I don’t suppose t somebody some,”

    Ricey said ful air as our of t ist of tments large tables doing intent, investigative tic endeavor t could never be completed and mustn’t beruss report on tion, anIndi