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iv. education and mental culture.
Victoria Museum for Egyptian Antiquities, — all in Uppsala; the Histo
rical Museum and that of the History of Culture, both in Lund; and the
historical section of the Gothenburg Museum.
C) Natural History Museums. The National Museum of Natural
History, under the supervision of the Royal Academy of Sciences, is the
richest and most important collection of objects of natural history in
Sweden. It embraces eight sections at present, each of which is managed by
a superintendent with the title of professor.
From the Biological Museum, Stockholm.
These sections are: a) the Zoological section for Vertebrates, which is the
oldest, embracing at present over 2 800 stuffed mammals and 19 000 birds, besides
amphibia, reptiles, and fishes, preserved in spirits; b) the Entomological section,
and c) the division for Lower Vertebrates; the last two sections are doubtless the
richest in the world as regards arctic objects; furthermore, d) the
Zoopalæonto-logical collection of fossil animals; e) the Botanical section; f) the section for
Archegoniates and fossil plants, embracing, more completely than any other
museum, plant-fossils from the polar regions, as well as from the coal-bearing strata
of Skåne; g) the Mineralogical section, which is considered fully equal to the
most renowned mineralogical collections in other European museums; and finally,
h) the Ethnographical collection, which embraces 20 000 specimens.
Among the museums of natural history in the provinces, should be
mentioned, in the first place, the Zoological section of the Gothenburg
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