FLOOR.] 
PORTRAITS. 
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Tables 13-24. Crustacea, such as the Land Crabs of the West 
Indies ; the Hermit Crabs, which live in shells ; the Kobber Crab or Tree 
Lobster, which climbs the cocoa-nut trees to get at the nuts ; the Lob- 
sters and Cray-fish ; the Glass Crabs found in the tropical parts of the 
ocean; the King Crabs of America and the Chinese seas. 
FIFTH EGOM. 
The Wall Cases contain the exotic Cartilaginous fish, such as the 
voracious Sharks ; the Kays ; the Torpedo or Numb-fish, which defend 
themselves by means of a galvanic-like apparatus in their bodies; the 
Sturgeons of the Russian and American rivers ; the curious-snouted 
Polyodon of the Mississippi. On the tops of the Cases are the saws 
of various Saw-fish, and specimens of the larger Cartilaginous fish, 
and some of the larger Sponges, such as Neptune's Cup. In the 
Table Cases are exhibited various kinds of Sponges which belong to 
an extensive class of living beings, mostly microscopic, in which the 
distinctive character of the Animal or of the Vegetable is not fully 
developed. 
JOHN EDWARD GRAY. 
LIST OF POETEAITS 
STJSPEJTDED ON THE WALLS OF THE 
EASTERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
First Compartment. Beginning on the left from the Mammalia Saloon. 
1. King James I. On pannel. Presented hj Dr. A. Giford. 
2. King Heney VIII. On pannel. Presented hij Dr. A. Giford, in 
1758. 
o. Oliver CROiiwELL. "A copy from Mr. Cromwell's original, 
grandson to Hen. Cromwell, L*'. L^ of Ireland. 1725." This 
Portrait came with the Cottonian Library. 
4. Elizabeth Peincess Palatine, granddaughter ") . -, ^ 
of James I., by Michael Mierevelt. V ^.^''^f 
5. King Edwaed III. On pannel. J ^'l'^^''^- 
6. King George I. From the Old Cottonian Library. 
7. Elizabeth Queen of Bohemia, daughter of ) , , 
James I., by Michael Mierevelt. V J; ''f^';:^^- ! 
8. King Henry VI. On pannel. j 
9. Oliver Cromwell, by Walker. Bequeathed, 1784, bi/ Sir Eobert 
Pdch, Bart., to whose great-grandfather, Nathaniel Eich, Esq.^ 
then serving as a Colonel of Horse in the Parliament Army, it 
was presented hy Cromwell himself. 
10. King James I. Presented by Mr. Cook. ^ 
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