FIRST FLOOR. 
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and drawings placed near the entrance of the gallery. The 
third gallery contains the remaining Molluscs, Echinoderms, 
Annelids and Crustacea; the fourth, the Corals, Sponges, Protozoa, Extinct 
and Fossil Plants. In these last two galleries the British anrpilnts!^' 
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 Historical 
special collections of historical interest, which, from the circum- CoUections. 
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 
general collection. The principal of these are, the original 
collection formed by William Smith, the pioneer of geology 
in this country, the Searles Wood Collection of Crag MoUusca, 
the Edwards Collection of Eocene MoUusca, the Davidson 
Collection of Brachiopoda, the types of Sowerby's 'Mineral 
Conchology,' and lastly, but not least in interest, the specimens 
which, belonging to the collection of Sir Hans Sloane, form 
the nucleus of the whole Museum. 
In the wall-cases on the west side of this gallery is exhibited stratigraphi- 
a straticrraphical collection, intended to show the most charac- calcoUectioii 
. . . . . , . 1 • -, 0^ Bntish 
tenstic organic remains oi the various geological formations of Paleontology. 
the British Isles, arranged in the order of their sequence in 
time, commencing near the entrance door with the most recent, 
and gradually passing down to the most ancient fossil-bearing 
strata. The arrangement of this collection is not yet com- 
pleted. 
EiRST Eloor. 
The gallery on this floor, entered from the south end of the Gallery of 
east corridor of the hall, contains the extensive Mineral Collec- ^"^^rals. 
tions, a full description of which will be found in a special 
guide.* 
Entering the gallery the visitor will find, in the first window- introductory 
case on the left-hand side, a series of specimens selected and 
labelled to serve as an introduction to the study of minerals. 
* 'Introduction to the Study of Minerals, with a Guide to the Mineral 
Gallery.' Price threepence. 
