Gould ; such purchase* are indicated in the Catalogue by the words 



' M,is>inn tini'ik'-s," M Mas. llnnisiil,." \c.. iv-prct \\ c\\ . Souir -pr- 



rtiurii- have been obtained from the British Museum by exchange, and 

 are marked " Mus. Brit" 



The skeletons of several rare African animals have been procured 

 1>\ purchase ; and other remarkable specimens, as the skeletons of 

 the adult Chimpanzee, of the Giraffe, of the Hippopotamus, and of 

 the largest Elephant exhibited alive in this country, have been secured 

 at a cost commensurate with their rarity. All such specimens arc 

 marked "Purchased." 



When an instructive and well-defined series of preparations had 

 been left incomplete by Hunter, it has been completed so far as the 

 duplicate materials at command would allow, and the date of the pre- 

 paration added to its description. 



In the Catalogue of 1831, the specimens of Human Osteology were 

 first described, and those of the lower animals followed in the descend- 

 ing order. The ascending order having been followed in the original 

 arrangement of the Hunterian Physiological specimens, and adhered 

 to in the Catalogues of that and the Zoological departments of the 

 Collection, has been adopted in the arrangement of the Osteological 

 specimens described in the present Catalogue. 



In the description of each specimen, the species from which it 

 was derived and the name of the part or bone are mentioned. When 

 the specimen consists of a skeleton, a skull, or other part including 

 several bones, the names thereof are indicated by numerals attached to 

 them, answering to the numerals in the first column of the appended 

 TABLE OF SYNONYMS. By reference to that Table will be found not 



