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the skeletons of the horse, the ass, the /ebra and 

 the quaccha, also those of the American tapir, 

 of the common hog, of the dicoljies, Cuv., and 

 of a new species of tapir, sent from the East 

 Indies by MM. Diard and Duvaucel. In the next 

 room we see the skeletons of the large carnivo- 

 rous animals, those of the pacliyderrnata and of 

 the cetacea, such as the male and female ele- 

 phants from India, which lived in the menagerie, 

 and the female of the African species, which was 

 prepared by Duverney : these last shew the error 

 of several travellers, who have maintained that 

 the elephant has no joint in the leg like other 

 quadrupeds. There are also a skeleton of the hip- 

 popotamus, one of the rhinoceros from the Cape, 

 recently brought by M. Delalande, and one of the 

 species from Senegal, sent by M. Roger, governor 

 of that settlement. There are also six other ske- 

 letons of the rhinoceros ; one prepared by Mer- 

 trud, three new species from the island of Java, 

 and two others procured at Sumatra by MM. Diard 

 and Duvaucel, and a complete skeleton of a ca- 

 meleopard more than \[\ feet high, sent to Eu- 

 rope by colonel Gordon. The skeletons of the 

 carnivorous animals, such as the bear, dog, wolf, 

 hyaena, lion, tiger, panther and the seal, are ar- 

 ranged upon the shelves on one side of the room ; 

 and on the other, several species of dolphin, the 



