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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 
The collection of specimens selected for exhibition, from 
tiie 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 Gallerv, and the Beasts with 
claws (Unguiculata) in the Mammalia Saloon. 
1. THE CENTRAL SALOON. 
Tn the Wall Cases of this Saloon are exhibited the specimens of 
the Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep. The Cases between the doorways 
contain the Bats, or Chiroj>tera. Some of the larger Mammal in are 
placed on the floor, such as the Giraffes or Camelopards of Central 
and South Africa; the Morse or Walrus from the Arctic Ocean; the 
Indian Rhinoceros, with a single horn on the n^se, and with its thick 
hide in deep folds ; different species of the African Rhinoceros, all of 
* For a more detailed and scientific explanation of the Zoological Collection, 
there is published a series of Catalogues, which may he purchased in the 1'iiu 
eipal Librarian's Office at the Museum, or at any Bookseller's. A List of ihc.-o 
Catalogues, with the prices, is at the end of this Ciuide. 
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