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EAST WING. 
Extinct 
Beptiles. 
Extinct 
Fishes. 
Extinct 
Invertebrates 
and Plants. 
Historical 
Collections. 
JEpyornis from Madagascar, in the south-east corner of the 
room. Some remains of large extinct birds from Patagonia 
have also been added to this gallery. 
The long gallery north of the mammalian saloon contains a 
fine assemblage of Eeptilian remains. The south side is de- 
voted to the Great Sea-Lizards (Plesiosauria and Ichthyosauria), 
mostly from the Lias formation. A nearly perfect skeleton of 
Flesiosaurus from the Oxford Clay is mounted in a case near 
the west end of this gallery. Eanged in the cases on the 
north side are remains of the gigantic Dinosauria, which far 
exceeded in size any other land-animals. A mounted plaster 
cast of a complete skeleton of an Iguanodon, found (with many 
others) at Bernissart in Belgium, is a conspicuous object in the 
middle of the room. The original from which it was taken is 
in the Brussels Natural History Museum. At the eastern end 
of the gallery are the Pterosauria, or Flying Eeptiles. At the 
west end is the nearly complete skeleton of Fariasaurus from 
the Karoo formation (Trias) of South Africa, one of the most 
remarkable fossil reptiles yet obtained. 
Of the galleries running northwards from this, the one nearest 
the centre of the building is devoted to the collection of fossil 
Fishes. The next contains the Cephalopods, a group of animals 
abounding in extinct forms, of which the Belemnites and 
Ammonites are the best known. The form and structure of 
their nearest living representatives, the various species of Cuttle- 
fishes, Squids, Argonauts and Nautilus, are illustrated by models 
and drawings and specimens, placed near the entrance of the 
gallery and along the top-line of the wall-cases. The third 
gallery contains the remaining Molluscs and Brachiopods ; the 
Echinoderms, Annelids and Crustacea; the fourth, the Corals, 
Sponges, Protozoa, and Fossil Plants. In these last two 
galleries the British specimens are placed in the table-cases, 
and those of foreign origin in the cases round the walls. 
The fifth gallery is set apart for the reception of certain 
special collections of historical interest, which, from the circum- 
stances under which they were formed, or came into possession 
of the Museum, or from their containing a large number of 
types described and figured in standard monographs, it has 
not been thought desirable to break up and disperse among the 
