At the time when Sir William took over the office of Keeper of the Zoological Department (in addition to the Directorship), the scheme then in vogue at the museum scarcely assigned to man his real zoological position—at the head of the order Primates in the mammalian class. It is true that in the osteological gallery the genus Homo was represented by a couple of skeletons and a series of skulls. But in the gallery devoted to stuffed specimens man, as an integral portion of the exhibited series, was conspicuous by his absence. This by no means suited the views of the Director, who in an obituary notice of Owen quoted with approval a statement of the great anatomist to the effect that no collection of zoology could in any way be regarded as complete without a large amount of space being devoted to the display of the physical characteristics of the various races of the human species. “The series of zoology would lack its most important feature were the illustrations of the physical characters of the human race omitted.” Such a series, thought Owen in 1862, would require a gallery of something like 150 feet in length, by 50 feet in width, for its proper display. Stuffed specimens being, of course, out of the question, the series was to include “casts of the entire body, coloured after life, of characteristic parts, as the head and face, skeletons of every variety arranged side by side for facility of comparison, the hair preserved in spirit, showing its characteristic sign and distinctive structures, etc.” Had photography been in anything like its present advanced position in 1862, no doubt its aid would have been claimed in illustrating the various racial types of the human species. A gallery of anything like the dimensions required by Owen was quite out of the question when Flower planned the addition of an anthropological section to the mammalian series, but one-half of the portion of the upper mammal gallery now open to the public was reserved for this purpose, so that man took his proper place in the zoological series immediately after the gorilla, chimpanzee, and the other man-like apes, which, in their turn, were preceded by the lower types of monkey. In the main, the specimens exhibited in this series follow on the lines suggested by Owen, including coloured casts of the upper part of the body, or the head and neck alone, specimens of the hair, skulls, skeletons, etc.