He returned to New York and, in 1935, at age 51, became director of the Natural History Museum.
That was a view echoed by Professor Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London.
After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions runs at the Natural History Museum, in London, until 29 Nov 2009.
Chris Stringer is Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum in London.
During the same expedition, the scientists sent one dead specimen to the Natural History Museum in London.
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It will be given to the Natural History Museum in London, where there is already a statue of Darwin.
The online collection will be launched by comedian and naturalist Bill Bailey at the Natural History Museum in London.
In 1812, a German botanist named August Friedrich Schweigger studied tortoise specimens at the natural history museum in Paris.
Since introducing charges, the Natural History Museum has been able to fund new educational projects, exhibitions, publications and research.
The fossils of the dinosaur, Nyasasaurus parringtoni, were part of a collection at the Natural History Museum in London.
The pterosaur fossil was donated to the Natural History Museum, which recently named the Isle of Wight as the "dinosaur capital of Great Britain".
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However, the experts at the Natural History Museum proved different .
The Natural History Museum has now had to reallocate the funding reserved for the project and we plan to invest the funds in other fieldwork.
Comedian Bill Bailey recently unveiled a restored portrait of Wallace at the Natural History Museum and has also filmed a two-part documentary for the BBC about Wallace.
The Natural History Museum at the University of Kansas, for example, is one of six university museums throughout the Midwest now mounting a new exhibit: Explore Evolution.
Dr Norman MacLeod, the keeper of palaeontology at the Natural History Museum, London, UK, told the BBC that the iridium anomaly could be attributed to other factors.
The guide's lead author, Dr John Tweddle from the Natural History Museum, said participating in the monitoring and observation was a "fun and rewarding pastime" for volunteers.
But scientists at the Natural History Museum found an insect egg case inside the skull which they said proved the animal had not died on the moors.
Durrell's vontsira and the brown-tailed vontsira are similar but have very different colouring, explained the Natural History Museum's Dr Paula Jenkins, a member of the research team.
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After Darwin: Contemporary Expressions at the Natural History Museum in London exhibits the work of artists and writers, including panellist Ruth Padel, inspired by another of Darwin's books.
Prof Andrew Parker, research leader at the Natural History Museum's zoology department and a specialist in bio-mimetics, said the concept was not too far fetched but had its limits.
This is a view backed by Prof Chris Stringer, who was also involved in the research and is an expert in human origins at the Natural History Museum in London.
On his death, the remains were passed into the possession of other individuals and eventually deposited in UK institutions, and then gradually brought under the keeping of the Natural History Museum.
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Much of the evidence required to build the timeline is already in the possession of researchers, said Professor Stringer, who is head of human origins at The Natural History Museum (NHM).
The new species, Laonastes aenigmamus, is described in the recent issue of the journal Systematics and Biodiversity, by authors from WCS, The Natural History Museum in London, University of Vermont and WWF Thailand.
He remembers that when, as a child, it rained, his father would often take him to the Natural History Museum or the Museum of Fine Arts which stand opposite each other in Vienna.
Monmouthshire-born Wallace, considered one of the greatest scientists of the 19th Century, did receive recognition for his work, and when he died aged 90 in 1913, fundraising began for a statue at the Natural History Museum.
The researchers, from the University of Washington and University of California Berkeley in the US and the Natural History Museum, re-examined a number of bones that were first collected from what is now Lake Malawi in southern Africa.
Mr Cameron finished with a dig at Mr Skinner, telling the chamber he often told his children there was "no need to go to the Natural History Museum to see a dinosaur" when they could watch the Bolsover MP in action.
Just like the Air and Space Museum challenges us to set our sights higher, or the Natural History Museum encourages us to look closer, or the Holocaust Museum calls us to fight persecution wherever we find it, this museum should inspire us as well.
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