FIRST FLOOR. 
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First Floor. 
The upper floors of the wings of the Museum consist only 
<of single galleries extending along the whole front of the 
building ; the galleries which run backwards on the ground 
€oor containing only a single story. 
The Mammalian Gallery is entered from the western Gallery of 
corridor of the Central Hall. It contains the series of stuffed i^ammais, 
specimens of animals of this class, with the exception of the 
€etacea. The gallery is at present undergoing a complete re- 
arrangement, and as its contents, as well as those of the next, 
are described in considerable detail in a special guide, a very 
short notice here will suffice. 
The series commences on the left with the most highly organ- 
ised forms, viz., the apes and monkeys, of which the fine series 
<of Gorillas, Chimpanzees and Orang-Outangs deserves special 
.attention. Among the Carnivora which occupy the cases next in 
order will be noticed the series of Tigers (cases 13 and 14), includ- 
ilng the small and long-haired Persian race, and the large short- 
haired form of the jungles of Bengal. Typical forms of the 
Bats (such as the Flying Fox), of the small Insect-feeders and 
Gnawing Animals, and of the Edentata (Sloths, Anteaters and 
Aruiadilloes) follow. The remainder of the cases of this side of 
■ ke gallery, of the pavilion, and nearly the whole of the right side 
ire devoted to the Ungulata or Hoofed Animals ; very complete 
series of the wild Sheep, Goats and wild Cattle, of the Musk-ox 
-in inhabitant of the Arctic regions, of the large African Ante- 
lopes, and of the Elk and Eeindeer of both hemispheres are 
exhibited. Towards the end of the series, in cases 95-98, the 
Pouched Mammalia or Marsttpialia (Kangaroos, "Wombats, Tas- 
■iianian Wolf, Opossums, &c.) find their place ; they carry their 
voung in a pouch, until able to shift for themselves. Finally 
"he Monotremes of Australia, the Duck-billed Platypus, and 
lie Ecliidna differ still more from the ordinary members of 
t])is class, inasmuch as they do not bring forth tlieir young 
alive, but lay eggs. 
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