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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 
The collection of specimens selected for exhibition, from 
the existing classes of Animals, is contained in three Galleries ; 
and, for the convenience of exhibition, is arranged in two 
series. The Beasts, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, are exhi- 
bited in the Wall Cases. The hard parts of the Molluscous, 
Radiated, and Annulose Animals, (as Shells, Corals, Sea- 
Eggs, Starfish, Crustacea, and Insects,) and the Eggs of 
Birds, are arranged in the Table Cases of the several 
Rooms.* 
The names and numbers of the Rooms are placed over the 
doorways in each apartment, and the numbers of the cases over 
the glass frames. 
The specimens are labelled with the scientific name, the 
English name when they have one, the country whence they 
come, and, when they have been presented, with the name of 
the donor. 
The General Collection of Mammals, or Beasts which suckle their 
young, is arranged in three Rooms, the Hoofed Beasts (Ungulata) 
being contained in the Central Saloon and Southern Zoological 
Gallery, and the Beasts with claws (Unguiculata) in the Mammalia 
Saloon. 
1. THE CENTRAL SALOON. 
In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are exhibited the specimens of 
the Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep. The Cases between the doorways 
contain Bats, or Chiroptera. Some of the larger Mammalia are 
placed on the floor, such as the Giraffes or Camelopards of Tropical 
Africa; the Morse or Walrus from the Arctic Ocean; the Indian 
Rhinoceros, with a single horn on the nose, and with its thick hide 
in deep folds ; different species of the African Rhinoceros, all of 
which have two horns and a smooth hide, without any folds; several 
specimens of the Hippopotamus in different stages of growth ; the 
* For a more detailed and scientific explanation of the Zoological Collection, 
there is published a series of Catalogues, which may be purchased in the Prin- 
eipal Librarian's Office at the Museum, or at any Bookseller's. A List of these 
Catalogues, with the prices, is at the end of this Guide. 
