THE 
ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS. 
TiiE collection of Animals is contained in three Galleries, 
and, for the convenience of exhibition, is arranged in two 
series. The Beasts, Birds, Eeptiles, and Fishes, are exhi- 
bited in the Wall Cases. The hard parts of the Eadiated, 
Molluscous, and Annulose Animals, (as Shells, Corals, Sea- 
Eggs, Starfish, Crustacea,) and Insects, and the Eggs of 
Birds, are arranged in a series in the Table Cases of the 
several Rooms.* 
The names and numbers of the Rooms are placed over the 
doorways in each apartment, and the numbers of the cases over 
the o-lass frames. 
The specimens are labelled with the scientific name, the 
English name vvdien they have one, the country whence they 
come, and, when they have been presented, with the name of 
the donor. 
The General Collection of Majoialia, or Beasts which 
suckle their young, is arranged in three Rooms, the Hoofed 
Beasts (Lfngulata) being contained in the Central Saloon 
and Southern Zoological Gallery, and the Beasts mth 
claws (Unguiculata) in the MAjyoiALiA Saloon. 
1. THE CENTRAL SALOON. 
Ill the Wall Cases of this Saloon are exhibited the specimens of 
the Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep. The Cases between the doorways 
contain the Bats, or Cheiroptera. Some of the larger Mammalia are 
placed on the iloor, such as the Giraffes or Camelopards of North 
and South Africa, and the Morse or Walrus from the North Sea. 
Over the Cases of the Antelopes and Bats are placed the horns of tho 
* For a more detailed and scientific explanation of the Zoological Collection, 
there is published a scries of Catalogues, -which may be purchased in the Prin- 
cipal Librarian's Office at the Museum, or at any Bookseller's. A List of these 
Catalogues, with the prices, is at the end of this Guide. 
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