TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



PAGES. 



Account op the British Museum (Natural History), Introduction . , 1 



List op Benefactors 15 



Ground-plan op Building . . . ■ ■ (prefixed) 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY. 



Introduction . . . . ... . ' - . . . 23 



Table of Stratified Rocks .26 



THE SOUTH-EAST GALLERY. 



General Arrangement of Class 1. — Fossil Mammalia 27 



Fossil Mammalia of Caves, &c. . . . . . . . . . .27 



Order I. Bimana (Fossil Man) . 28 



,, II. Quadrumana (Monkeys) ...... 28 



,, III. Insectivora (Moles, Hedgehogs, &e. ) .... 29 



IV. Cheiroptera (Bats) .29 



,, V. Rodentia (Gnawing animals) ...... 30 



,, VI. Carnivora (Flesh-eating animals) . . ■ .30 

 ,, VII. Proboscidea (Elephants) ...... 31 



Dinotherium ; Mastodon ; Elephas ; (Mammoth) . 32 

 " Pigmy Elephants " of Malta . .... 37 



VIII. Ungulata (Hoofed animals) 37 



Rhinoceros, P alee other ium, Equus . , .38 



Hippopotamus. Ruminantia 40 



Ruminantia. Camelidce, Antelopidce, Bovidce, Cervidoe 41 



IX. Cetacea (Whales, &e.) 43 



„ X. Sirenia (Manatee, &c.) 43 



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