...much dilapidated, when a new and ardent spirit, excited in no small degree by the popularity of Dr. Paley's work on Natural Theology, and by the physiological...to give proper dignity to every branch of natural scU ence. The second division exhibits relics of antiquity arranged according to the order of time,...

...his arrangement of the contents of the Museum : — " ' The first division proposes to familiarise the eye to those relations of all natural objects...order of time, with some specimens of curious art of uncivilised, as well as of refined, nations. "'In the exhibition of animals the order of Cuvier has...

...relations of all natural objects which form the basis of argument in Dr. Paley's Natural Tlieohgy ; to induce a mental habit of associating the view of...order of time, with some specimens of curious art of uncivilised, as well as of refined, nations. " ' In the exhibition of animals the order of Cuvier has...

...contents of the Museum the illustration of Paley's work was given the foremost place by JS Duncan : " The first division proposes to familiarize the eye...to give proper dignity to every branch of natural science1." The great naturalist, WJ Burchell, in his classical work shows the same recognition of adaptation...

...Ashmolean Museum was 'modernized' in 1820 it was arranged not on Linnaean lines but in accordance with Paley's Natural Theology - 'to induce a mental habit...phenomena with the conviction that they are the media for Divine manifestation'. The British Museum's Natural History Department (Richard Owen, 1804-92,...

...collections into three pans: the first division followed the principles established by Faley, being designed 'to induce a mental habit of associating the view...every branch of natural science'; the second division exhibited 'relics of antiquity, arranged according to the order of time ' , while the third featured...