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WEST WING. 
ing the femur or thigh bone, the only trace of the hind leg of 
this gigantic animal, are also preserved. Beyond this skeleton is 
a skull of the Greenland Eight-Whale {Baldena mysticetus), which 
yields most of the whalebone " of commerce, and also a small 
wooden model of the animal, of the scale of one inch to the foot. 
First Eloor. 
The upper floors of the wings of the Museum consist only 
of single galleries extending along the whole front of the 
building ; the galleries which run backwards on the ground 
floor containing only a single story. 
Gallery of The MAMMALIAN GALLERY is entered from the western 
Mammals. corridor of the Central Hall. It contains the series of stuffed 
specimens of animals of this class, with the exception of the 
Cetacea and the Sirenia. The collection of antlers of the 
family of Deer is 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 suffice. 
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 in 
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 Flying Fox), 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 
the 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 
an inhabitant of the Arctic regions, of the large African Ante- 
lopes, 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 Marsupialia (Kangaroos, Wombats, Tas- 
manian Wolf, Opossums, &c.), find their place ; they carry their 
