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- Scientists at MNHN only receptive to Linnaeus’s classification after 1788, after Buffon died.
- First Undersecretary of BMNH, Solander, was student of Linnaeus.
- Scientists at MNHN were not very receptive to evolutionary theory of Darwin (1858) and continued more or lesswith Cuvier’s classification.
- Darwin’s theory (1858) coincided with the move of the BMNH into new facility and slightly preceded change in directors (Owen to Flowers). However, building designed for Cuvier’s classification
- MNHN dominant natural history museum until mid 19th C. BMNH dominant from mid 19th C. until mid 20th C.