ACCOUNTS, &C., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 43 



Department of Geology. 

 I. — Arrangement. 



Fossil Mammalia. — South East Gallery. — The twenty pier and wall-cases at present 

 provided for this gallery, have, during the past year, been all completely fitted up 

 and filled with the fossil remains of the higher animals. 



Commencing on the south side, Wall-case, No. 1, is devoted to the exhibition of the Cave 

 Mammalia, including remains of Prehistoric Man and the Carnivora of the Pliocene and 

 Quaternary periods ; from the caverns of Brazil, France, Germany, and Britain. 



In Pier-cases 2 and 3 is arranged a rpmarkably fine series, chiefly skulls and lower 

 jaws, of Rhinoceroses from Siberia, Britain, France, Germany, and India. 



In Pier-cases 4 and 5 are placed the remains of Fossil Horses {Equidce) with their 

 Miocene relations, Hipparioji and Aitclntherium ; also the remains of Antliracotherium ; and 

 0^ Hippopotamus from England, France, Germany, Italy, and India. 



Pier-case 6 contains the skulls, horns, and limbs of the Sivatherium giganteum (an 

 extinct colossal ruminant, nearly related to the Antilocaprida), and the fossil remains of the 

 CamelidcB, all from the Siwalik Hills of India. 



Pier-case 7 is occupied by the skulls of fossil BovidcB and AntilopidcB, mostly from 

 the Siwalik Hills of India ; and a small series of remains of the Bison prisons, from Britain, 

 Siberia, &c. 



In Pier-case 8 are arranged the fossil oxen from British localities, including the fine 

 series of heads and horn -cores of Bos primigenius, from the peat deposits and turbaries of 

 Scotland, and the brick earths of the Thames Valley at Ilford, Essex ; also numerous 

 heads of Bos longifrous, believed to be the immediate ancestor of our small Welsh cattle 

 of to-day. 



Pier-case No. 9 is devoted to the fossil Cervida, and includes a fine series of horns of 

 Cervus tetraceros, from the Puy de Dome, Auvergne, and remains of Cervus verticornis 

 from the Norfolk Forest Beds ; of the gigantic Irish deer, Cervus megaceros ; the Reindeer, 

 and the Red-deer, from British and Irish localities. 



In Wall-cases 10 and 14, at the east end of the gallery, are placed the remains of the 

 Sirenia and Cctacea, including the genera Felsinotherium, from the Pliocene of Italy, 

 Halitherium, from the Miocene of Darmstadt, Rhizoprion, from the Middle Tertiaries of 

 France, Sgua/odoUy from Bavaria, &c. ; Zeuglodon from Alabama; and numerous remains 

 of Balccna, Phoccena, and Hyperoodon, from Quaternary deposits of the Thames Valley, 

 the Antwerp and Suffolk Crags, &c. 



Pier-cases 1.^ to 20 contain the remains of fossil Froboscidea, or Elephants ; in 15 are 

 the remains of the " Mammoth," Elephas primigenius, from Siberia, Escholtz Bay, 

 Germany, &c. ; and in 16, more than 30 jaws and parts of crania of the Mammoth from 

 Ilford, Essex, the Dogger Bank in the North bea, and from Holyhead, displaying 

 individuals of every age, from the small sucking-calf to the very aged adult, as indicated 

 by the condition of the molar teeth. 



Pier-case 17 also contains some British remains of the JElephas antiquus ; the rest of 

 the case, and also of Pier-cases 18, 19, and 20, are entirely devoted to the great collec- 

 tion of elephant remains fi-om the Siwalik Hills (Upper Miocene) of India, figured and 

 described in Falconer and Cautley's Fauna Antigua Sivalensis, and presented to the 

 National Museum by Sir Proby T. Cautley, K.C.B. (1842-48), and others. This series 

 includes more than 30 heads and parts of skulls of extinct sj^ecies of elephants, besides 

 lower jaAVS, vertebrae, and limb-bones. 



Pier-case 21 is occupied by remains of Mastodon from Perim Island, and from the 

 Miocene of Sansan in France : of these there are some very perfect remains, including 

 about eight heads. 



Pier-case 22 is devoted to the exhibition of the remains of Mastodon ohioticvs, from 

 North Amei'ica. This fine series embraces 15 heads and jaws, besides numerous 

 detached bones, teeth and tusks. 



Wall-case 23 is occupied by the skull and teeth of Mastodon andium, from Uruguay, 

 Buenos Ayres, &c., numerous remains of Dinotherium giganteum, from the Miocene 

 of Epplesheim, and the fine head and lower jaw of Toxodon platensis, from Buenos Ayres. 



Numerous objects, too large for the pier-cases, have been placed upon their to^js, or 

 down the centre of the floor of the gallery. 



On Pier-cases 4, 6, 7, and 8, are placed nine heads and horns of the gigantic Irish 

 deer ( Cervus megaceros^. 



On Pier-case 9 are three heads and horn-cores of Indian Bovidce of large size, from the 

 Siwalik Hills. 



On Wall-case 10 is arranged a group of seven fiontal bones, with the horn-cores 

 attached of the great extinct ox, Bos primigenius, from the brick earths of Ilford, in the 

 valley of the Thames. 



On the Pier and Wall-cases, 14 to 19, are exhibited 21 tusks of various sizes and 

 curvatures, mostly belonging to the true "Mammoth" {Elephas primigenius), from 

 Siberia ; from the Dogger Bank ; from Ilford, and many other localities in England. 



In the centre of the floor, near the entrance to the Pavilion, is placed tlie restored 

 skeleton and dermal ariuour of the extinct gigantic non-banded Armadillo from South 



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