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WEST WING. 
are incorporated with this series. The collection of antlers 
of the family of Deer are ranged along the top of the cases. 
The contents of this gallery and the next are described in 
considerable detail in a special guide, and therefore a very 
short notice here will suf&ce. 
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 inj 
order will be noticed the series of Tigers (cases 13 and 14), includ- 
ing 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 Mying Tox), of the small Insect-feeders and 
Gnawing Animals, and of the Edentata (Sloths, Anteaters and 
Armadilloes) follow. The remainder of the cases of this side of 
gallery, of the pavilion, and nearly the whole of the right side 
are devoted to the Ungulata or Hoofed Animals ; very complete 
series of the wild Sheep, Goats and wild Cattle, of the Musk-ox, 
inhabitant of the Arctic regions, of the large African Antelopes 
(chiefly obtained by Mr. T. C. Selous), 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 Mar- 
siqnalia (Kangaroos, Wombats, Tasmanian Wolf, Opossums, &c.), 
find their place ; they carry their young in a pouch, until able 
to shift for themselves, in this respect reminding us of the 
nest-building birds. Einally the Monotremes of Australia, the 
Duck-billed Platypus, and the Echidna, at the bottom of case 
98, differ still more from the ordinary members of this class, 
inasmuch as they do not bring forth their young alive, but lay 
Second Elooe. 
Skeletons and The Osteological Gallery is devoted to the skeletons and 
iSmmaL 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) by a male and female 
human skeleton, followed by a selection of skulls, showing the 
different modifications of the cranial and facial bones in the 
