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Department op Geology. 
Introduction . • ■ 30 
Room I. (Fossil Plants) 31 
„ II. (Fossil Fishes) 32 
III. (Fossil Reptiles — Bird remains — Eggs — Mammalian remains) . . 34 
IV. (Fossil Reptiles — Mammalian remains — Fossil Sponges — Gigantic 
Bird, &c.) • . . 36 
V. (Mammalian remains — Corals — Nummulites — Stone-lilies — Sea- 
urchins — Worms — Fossil Insects — Crustacea — Shells) . 37, 40 
VI. (Osseous remains of the Edentata and large Pachydermata, such as: 
Elephants and Mastodons — Remains and casts of Marsupial 
Animals — Fossil human skeleton — Human remains, with worked 
implements of stone and bone — Mammalian remains from South 
America — Remains of the " Pigmy Elephant " — Shells) . 39, 41 
Department op Mineralogy. 
Introduction ............ 44 
Meteorites 44 
Minerals. Division I. — The Native Elements, Room I. . . .46 
II. — Compounds of the Arsenoid and Thionid Elements, Rooms I. 
and II. .......... 
III. — Compounds of the Halogen Elements, Rooms II. and III. . . 50 
IV. — Compounds of Oxygen, Rooms III. IV. II. and I. . .50 
V. — Mineral Organic Substances, Room I. 57 
VI. — Pseudomorphs, Room II. . 57 
Department op Botany. 
Introduction ............ 58 
Cellular Cryptogams (Fungi, Algae, Lichens, and Mosses) . Room I. 59 
Vascular Cryptogams (Clubmosses, Horse-tails, Ferns, &c.) I. 59,64 
Monocotyledons (Grasses, Rushes, Palms, Screw-pines, &c.) ,, 77. 60 
Gymnosperms (Cycads, Conifers) ,,77. 64 
Dicotyledons — Parasitical Plants II 6 
Fruits and Stems ,11. 67 
Proteacese ,,77. 71 
Fossil Plants f . , , . . , ,,7. 70 
