2 JULY 1904, Page 24

THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM.

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sin,—My attention has been drawn to a paragraph in your issue of June 18th in which the reviewer of the memoir of Sir William Flower deplores that "when the plans of the Museum were approved by the Government the architect and builders, and not the men of science for whom the building was erected, were given the control." As my father, the architect, is unhappily an invalid, it perhaps falls to me to point out that his plans were prepared in constant consultation with the "men of science," and specially with the late Sir Richard Owen. " Tbe builders," I need hardly add, had no voice in