UPPER MAMMAL GALLERY. 
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the long-haired Manchurian and the short-coated Indian forms 
are shown. 
Second Floor. 
The portion of the gallery on this floor in the western Upper 
wing of the building open to the public, contains such of the Q^iSrv^^^^^ 
mammalian orders (apart from the Cetacea) as are not shown in 
the lower gallery. In the centre, on entering, as well as in the 
first wall-case on the right, are displayed a fine series of Bats, 
some stuffed, and others in spirit. In the second wall-case are ■ ' 
the insect-eating mammals (Insectivora), such as Shrews, Moles, 
Hedgehogs, &c. ISText come the Lemurs, and then the Monkeys 
and Apes, the greater number of the latter being exhibited in 
the large case in the middle of the gallery. 
The whole of the left side of this gallery is devoted to 
Anthropology, that is to say, to the study of the zoological 
characters of the different races of Mankind ; the series in- 
cluding busts, skeletons, skulls, and portraits. 
At the west end of the portion of this gallery open to the 
public stands an instructive and interesting case exhibiting 
many of the structural differences distinguishing the Man-like 
Apes from Man himself ; and also showing different types of 
human skulls and the method of measuring the same. On the 
adjacent screens and partitions are diagrams, photographs, 
and sketches illustrating hand and finger-prints, the identifica- 
tion of criminals by means of the latter, " palmistry," &c. 
EAST WING. 
Ground Floor. 
The ground floor of this wing consists, as on the other side of Paiseontologi- 
the building, of a gallery running west and east the whole length Collection, 
of the wing in front, of a smaller parallel gallery behind it, and 
leading from the latter, a series of galleries running north and 
I south. With the exception of a certain number of recent 
j skeletons introduced for comparison, the whole of this floor 
j is occupied by the collection of the remains of animals and 
j plants which flourished in geological periods anterior to tliat 
