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Notice that all have the long sharp -edged incisors and 

 no canines. 



The floor case at the right contains a miscellaneous 

 collection of fossils, most of them being from the vi- 

 cinity of Charleston. 



Weasel Tribe. — Beyond the rodeo t case are the car- 

 nivorous animals grouped together as the weasels. 

 Most of the animals are of value for their fur. Here 

 are the minks, sable, weasels, otters, skunks, and the 

 larger forms — the fishers, wolverines, and badgers. 



Cats. — The next case contains the cats, of which 

 the most important is the puma. This cat ranges all 

 over the American continent, and has figured abund- 

 antly in the annals of the early settlers, under the 

 names of panther, painter, catamount, cougar, and 

 in recent contemporary history it has occupied a 

 prominent place in the public eye under the name of 

 Rocky Mountain lion. The wild cat shown above is 

 still abundant in the swamps about Charleston. 



History of the Ammonites. — This case has been pre- 

 pared as a sample illustrating how museum material 

 can be used to tell a story. It is designed to illus- 

 trate the rise, reign, and decline of the ammonite 

 group of shells. During the so-called Reptilian Age 

 the ammonites flourished in great abundance ; thou- 

 sands of species having been described, many of them 



