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according to their nature, so that we see in one 

 frame those of the heel, etc., of all the animals. 

 There are similar series of the large bones and 

 of the vertebrae in the two adjoining rooms, 

 where we may compare those of the thigh, the 

 arm, etc. 



In the third room are the skeletons of the small 

 quadrupeds, comprising those of almost all the 

 monkey tribe, those of the simia troglodites , Lin., 

 of the pongo, several of the simia lar, and that 

 of the galeopithecus ; a most complete series of 

 the carnivorous animals, all the species of kan- 

 guroo and didelphis known; the rodentia, the 

 beavers, etc. ; every known genus of the edentata, 

 amongst which is the myrmecophaga jubata y sent 

 from Guyana by M. Martin ; the m. tamandua, 

 procured by M. Gaimard, and the m. capensis, by 

 M. Delalande ; lastly, the skeletons of the echidna 

 and ornithorkynchus. Above the cases are affixed 

 to the wall, the horns of the ruminantia, and on 

 both tables are methodically arranged a complete 

 series of teeth, from man to the horse. 



In the fourth room we see the skeletons of 

 birds. Those which most deserve our attention 

 are the African and American ostriches, the Indian 

 casuary and the emu of New Holland; the skele- 

 ton of an ibis, taken out of the tomb of a mummy, 

 which M. Geoffroy procured in Egypt, and the 



