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ADDITION TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
The zoological collection of the British Museum has lately received 
some very interesting Mammalia from Siberia, viz. Antelope siaga, 
Ant. subgutturosa, and some small quadrupeds described by Pallas, 
which have not before been seen in Western Europe. Capt. George 
Gray has presented to it some very interesting specimens which he 
collected during his travels in New Holland, and Mrs. Dunn has 
sent a series of shell and radiated animals from New Zealand, which 
she had received from Mr. Busby. These, with the shells which the 
Museum received some time ago from the Rev. Mr. Yates, show 
the great riches we are to expect from these islands when they are 
properly explored. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL GALLERY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 
The eastern gallery of the British Museum, which was formerly 
occupied by the collections of minerals, having undergone a complete 
repair, has been lately re-opened to the public, with the collections 
of birds and shells. The passerines, gallinaceous, and wading birds 
are as yet only arranged, but the remainder will be exhibited in the 
course of the spring, when this room, which is 300 feet long and 50 
wide, will contain one of the richest ornithological collections in Eu- 
rope. The cases are all glazed with large panes of plate-glass, with 
very narrow brass bars; and the smaller birds are arranged on a new 
plan, on box shelves, each bird having a back ground close behind it, 
so as to show its outline distinctly and relieve its colours, and the 
shells, which will occupy forty table cases, are exhibited on blac 
velvet, which gives them admirable relief. 
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS FOR ocT. 1840. 
Chiswick.—October 1. Overcast. 2,3. Very fine. 4. Rain. 5. Fine: rain, 
6. Fine. 7. Frosty and foggy. 8. Very fine. 9. Hazy. 10. Dense fog: very 
fine. 11. Hazy. 12—15. Foggy in the mornings: fine. 16. Overcast. 18, 
Cioudy: rain. 19. Cloudy. 20. Clear. 21. Fine. 22. Hazy: rain. 29, 
Overcast: rain. 24, Overcast. 25. Veiy fine. 26. Overcast. 27. Heavy 
rain: clear. 28. Fine. 29, Foggy: rain: dense fog at night. 30. Cloudy 
and fine: clear. 31. Foggy: clear at night. 
Boston.—Oct. 1, 2. Cloudy. 3, Fine. 4, Cloudy, 5. Cloudy: rain early 
A.M. 6,7. Fine. 8. Fine: rime frost this morning. 9. Cloudy. 10, 11. Fine. 
12—14. Foggy. 15. Fine. 16. Cleudy. 17. Rain: rain early a.m. 18, 
Cloudy: rain p.m. 19. Stormy. 20. Fine. 21. Cloudy. 22. Cloudy: rain 
early a.m. 23. Fine: rainr.m. 24. Fine. 25, Fine: rain early a.m. 26. Fine. 
27. Cloudy: rain early a.m. 28. Foggy. 29, Cloudy: rain a.m. and p.m. 
30, 31. Foggy. 
