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What did Richard Owen campaign for regarding the British Museum’s natural specimens?
Their sale
Their destruction
Their transfer to a new home
Their replication
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Richard Owen campaigned for the transfer of the British Museum’s natural specimens to a new home. He believed that the existing museum was too small and overcrowded, and that the specimens were not being properly cared for. Owen’s campaign eventually led to the construction of the Natural History Museum in South Kensington, which opened in 1881.
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