Excerpt from Guide to the Shell and Starfish Galleries (Mollusca, Echinodermata, Vermes): In the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History), Cromwell Road, London, S. W
One of the large side-galleries approached from the Bird Gallery is devoted to the exhibition of the extensive Class of Mollusca. Specimens of the types of all the principal divisions of this Class are exhibited, either entire and preserved in spirit, or as models. However, as not the animals, but their shells have always been a favourite object of study, and a popular source of pleasure to collectors, the exhibition of the species of shells has been made as complete as the space of this Gallery admitted. It has thus proved adequate for the requirements of the majority of visitors who consult this Collection.
The Starfish Gallery, so called from one of the best-known types of the Echinodermata, contains an exhibition of the animals of this Class, as well as of the somewhat heterogeneous assemblage of creatures which are comprised under the popular name of Worms (Vermes). These animals possess greater attraction to students of Natural History than to the general public, and many, from their small size or the soft nature of their body, are not fit for exhibition.
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