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Horniman Walrus
A Memory of Forest Hill.
I too, remember the Horniman Walrus. I heard somewhere that it was "overstuffed" and that Walruses' skin is supposed to be all wrinkly. The taxidermist probably didn't know this and filled up the skin to maximum capacity. It was still on display in about 2000, when I last was there. What about the interminable and dreary exhibition of Romanian folk art they seemed to have on display for years in the 1950's?
I also remember the Chinese bell, a big clock on the top floor and a frightening torture apparatus somewhere near the aquarium, and hundreds of skulls, all in the 1950's.
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