50 
EAST WING. 
Second Tlooe. 
Skeletons and xhe Osteological Gallery is devoted to the skeletons and 
Mammals. skulls of Mammalia, the arrangement of which corresponds, as 
far as practicable, with that of the stuffed specimens. The series- 
commences (on the left hand on entering) with a male and female 
human skeleton, followed by a selection of skulls, showing the 
different modifications of the cranial and facial bones in the 
various races of Mankind. Among these is the skeleton of a full- 
grown Akka, only four feet high, which appears to be the usual 
size of this pygmy tribe of Negroes from Central Africa. The next 
wall-case contains several skeletons of man-like Apes, the Orang- 
outang, Gorilla and Chimpanzee, with the principal forms of the 
other Monkeys and Lemurs. In cases 4-8 numerous representa- 
tives of the Carnivorous and Eodent Mammalia are shown, the re- 
mainder of the cases of this side of the gallery being devoted to 
the exhibition of skulls of the larger Ungulata, viz., the Elephants^ 
Rhinoceroses and Horses. Of the first many skulls are exhibited^ 
some in section showing the extraordinary modification of the 
skull in adaptation to the support of the heavy tusks and 
powerful trunk. 
The majority of the cases on the right hand of the gallery 
are occupied by the Euminant Ungulata, such as the Camels, 
Oxen, Antelopes, Sheep, Goats and Deer ; cases 23 and 24 con- 
taining skeletons and skulls of Sirenia, the Edentata (Sloths^, 
Anteaters, Armadilloes), the Marsupials or Pouched Mammalia, 
and finally the Monotremes of Australia (Ornithorhynchus and 
Echidna), which in their skeleton as well as other structures 
differ widely from the ordinary members of the class. 
Along the centre of the gallery is ranged a very complete 
series of skeletons of the wild cattle of the old and new world, 
and of the various species of Rhinoceros and Hippopotamus. 
Amon^,' tlie former is a fine skeleton of the large Burchell's 
Rhinocciros (It. simus), of which the skin is mounted in the 
gallery Ijelow. There are also skeletons of the African and 
Indian elephants, the latter being a very large example of the 
tusk less variety or Muckna. 
