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teeth, their form, the different tissues of which they are 
composed, the two great types of dentition in mammals, 
homodont and lieterodont, the nomenclature and homologies of the 
different teeth, and their development and succession. The 
principal modifications of teeth according to their function are 
next shown by examples of forms adapted for fish-eating, flesh- 
eating, insect-eating, grass-eating, &c. The remainder of the 
case is taken up by select examples of the dentition of all the 
different families of mammals arranged in systematic order, 
prepared so as to display not only the shape of the crowns, but 
also the number and character of the roots by which they are 
implanted. 
Bay II. Bay No. II. contains, in its first wall-case (the only one yet 
of Mammals occupied), illustrations of the outer covering or integument and 
its modifications in the class of Mammals, divided into the 
following sections : 
1. Expansion of skin to aid in locomotion, as the webs 
between the fingers of swimming and flying animals, the para- 
chutes of flying animals. 
2. The development of true bony plates in the skin, found 
among mammals only in the Armadillos and their allies. The 
cast of a section of the tail of a great extinct species 
(Glyptodon) shows well a bony external as well as internal 
skeleton. 
3. The outer covering modified into true scales, much resem- 
bling in structure the nails of the human hand. This occurs 
in only one family of mammals, the Pangolins or Manidoe. 
4. Hair in various forms, including bristles and spines. A 
stuffed specimen of a Porcupine at the bottom of the case 
affords a good illustration of a spiny covering. The two 
kinds of hair composing the external clothing of most mam- 
mals, the long, stiffer outer hair, and the short, soft under 
fur, are shown by various examples. 
5. The special epidermal appendages found in nearly all 
mammals on the ends of the fingers and toes, called according 
to the various forms they assume, nails, claws or hoofs. 
6. The nasal horns of the Pthinoceros, shown by sections to 
consist of a solid mass of hair-like epidermic fibres. 
7. The horns of Oxen, Goats and Antelopes, consisting of a 
