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meet the wants of the public at large, and of beginners as well 
as of more advanced university students, but also to promote 
research by giving assistance to specialists and original investiga- 
tors. Meanwhile, the work of the Museum proper should be in 
charge of Assistants whose duties are so arranged as to leave a 
good part of their time free for original research; the Museum 
as a whole forming an important branch of the Natural His- 
tory Department of the University, with which its Assistants 
and Professors are intimately connected. 
An enumeration of the contents and uses to which our space is 
devoted will give a better idea of our aims than a lengthy 
description. 
EXHIBITION ROOMS. 
Synoptic Room : — 
Synopsis of the Animal Kingdom, living and fossil. 
Five Systematic Rooms : — 
Mammalia. 
Birds. 
Fishes. 
Mollusca. 
Radiates and Protozoa. 
And their Galleries for the Systematic Collections of Reptiles, Insects, 
and Crustacea. 
Seven Faunal Rooms and Galleries : — 
North American. 
South American. 
African, including Madagascar. 
Indian. 
Australian. 
* Europeo-Siberian. 
* Atlantic. 
* Pacific. 
Four Rooms for the Palontological Collections. 
Two Rooms for the Paleozoic, one for the Mesozoic, and one for the 
Tertiary : — 
* The Silurian and Devonian. 
* The Carboniferous and Jura. 
* The Cretaceous. 
* The Tertiary. 
* Not yet opened to the public. 
