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under part of the building and is used for storing alcoholic specimens of Radiates, 

 Fishes, Birds and Mammals, with rooms for aquarium and work shops. 



First floor. — Palseontological exhibition rooms, with representative fossils 

 from the Cambrian, Devonian, Silurian, Carboniferous, Triassic, Jurassic, Creta- 

 ceous and Tertiary formations. Also a zoological synoptic room, laboratories 

 for college students, geological and palseontological work-rooms and professors, 

 rooms. 



Second floor. — Work-rooms in physiology and anatomy; synoptic room in 

 pateontological formations ; geological and palseontological room for special stu- 

 dents, library, curator's room, etc. 



Third floor. — Zoological exhibition rooms. Systematic collections of mol- 

 lusca, polyps, fishes, birds and mammals. Also rooms for North American, 

 South American, African, Indo-Asiatic, European and Siberian, Atlantic, Pacific 

 and Southern Ocean Faunas. 



Fourth floor. — Systematic collections of moUusca, polyps, erchinoderms, 

 acalephs, sponges, Crustacea, worms, batrachians and reptiles in four rooms. 

 With rooms for North American, Madagascar, AustraUan and Indian Faunas. 

 Laboratories for college students, and for special students in zoology. 



Fifth floor. — Work-rooms for entomology, conchology, radiates, birds, 

 mammals and skeletons, and large lecture room. 



I think the plan to give a synoptic room, where orders and families can be 

 studied, and that of arranging rooms in reference to the geographical distribu- 

 tion of animals, is not only original, but the best one possible. Associated with 

 typical species of recent animals are their extinct ancestors in many cases, and 

 it is greatly to be hoped that a large series of ancestral types will be exhibited 

 here m the near future. The study of palaeontology would then, as it should, 

 go side by side with comparative anatomy. Skeletons of recent animals are us- 

 ually mounted by the side of the stuffed ones. 



The synoptic room includes typical specimens of the mammals, birds, rep- 

 tiles, amphibians, radiates, class erchinoderms, articulates, classes cretaceans and 

 insects, cephalopodes, mollusks, gastropods and lamellibranchiata. 



In the zoological exhibition rooms, of the order Primates, man, orang, gor- 

 illa, lemurs, etc. 



Order Carnivora — Several species. 



Order Ungulata — American bison, skulls of Brazilian ox and Indian buffalo, 

 cast of limbs and skull of the extinct Livatherium, skulls of Bos Primigenius, 

 Rocky Mountain Goat and Sheep, Prong-horn, Saiga Antelope, Chamois, 

 American Elk, Moose, Red Deer, Sambos Deer, Giraffe, Dromedary, Alpaca, 

 Axis Deer, Zebra, skulls of Hippopotamus, Rhinoceros, Elephant and Mastodon. 



Sub-order Primipeda — Northern Fur Seal, common Seal. 



Order Cete — Pilot Whale, Dolphin, Manatee. 



Order Brata — Giant Ant- Eater, three-toed Sloth. 



Order Marsupialia — Tasmania Wolf, great Kangaroo, Ashy Coali, Vulpine 

 Phalangu, etc. 



