although Paul MacGillivray's main interest was natural history, he was also the president of the Medical Society of Victoria and a member of the Philosophical Institute of Victoria?
Question 4: Amateur collectors and natural history entrepreneurs played an important role in building the large natural history collections of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, such as the Smithsonian Institution's ________.
Question 5: Until well into the nineteenth century, knowledge was considered by Europeans to have two main divisions: the ________ (including theology), and studies of nature.
Question 6: Studies of nature could in turn be divided, with natural history being the descriptive counterpart to ________ which was the analytical study of nature.
Question 10: Natural history museums, which evolved from ________, played an important role in the emergence of professional biological disciplines and research programs.
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