 The project of a "Gallery of Paleontology, Comparative Anatomy and Anthropology" started in the late 1880s when the "galerie de Zoologie" (Gallery of Zoology) was inaugurated in 1889.The collections in the former galleries of comparative anatomy (founded by Georges Cuvier in 1802 and constituted by bones, skeletons and preserved organs) were running out of room in the 1880s and 1890s and the inauguration of the Gallery of Zoology (mainly constituted by stuffed animals) encouraged this project, proposed by professors Albert Gaudry (Professor of Paleontology), Georges Pouchet (Professor of Comparative Anatomy) and Armand de Quatrefages (Professor of Anthropology), who wished to preserve and present to the public collections of great historic and scientific importance.In addition, two approaching events led to make concrete the project