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DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 
TiiE 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 tlie AVall 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.* 
Tlie names and numbers of the Rooms are placed over the 
doorwaj's 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 wdience they 
come, and, when they have been presented, with the name of 
the donor. 
The General Collection of Mammals, or Beasts Avhich 
suckle their young, is arranged in three Rooms, the Hoofed 
Beasts (Vngulata) being contained in the Central Saloon 
and Southern Zoological Gallery, and the Beasts with 
claws (Unguiculata) in the Mam:\ialia Saloon. 
1. THE CENTRAL SALOON. 
In the AVall Cases of this Saloon are exhibited tlie specimens of 
the Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep. The Cases between the clourwavr- 
contain the liats, or Chiroptera . Some of the larger Mammalia are 
placed on the lloor, such as the Giraffes or Camelopards of Central 
and South Africa; the Morse or Wah'us from the Arciic Ocean; the 
Indian Ilhinoceros, w'nh a single horn on the mse, 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 Zoolog^ical Collection, 
there is puMished a series of Catalogues, winch may he purchased in the \'tiu 
eipal Librarian's Office at the ^luseuui, or at any Bookseller's. A List of thccc 
Catalogues, with the prices, is at the cml of this iiuide. 
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