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On the floor of the ,^east transept is a case of replicas of tropi- 
cal Fruits, accompanied in many instances by products gained from 
the different species. 
THE HERBARIUM. 
The herbarium of this department is located in the north bal- 
cony over the main entrance to the Museum, and is open at all 
times, during business hours, to students of systematic phytology 
and ecology. The collections are large and particularly rich in 
the flora of North America, the West Indies and Mexico, and the 
genera Salix, Euphorbia, Juncus and Carex, with a generous 
amount of species of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. 
The collections in Zoology occupy Halls 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 
26, 27, the West Court and its Alcoves on South side, and the 
South Court and its Alcoves on West side. Of these halls and 
alcoves, the Department of Ornithology occupies Halls 26 and 27, 
and Alcove 100, and the collections found there will be described 
on page elsewhere. 
WEST COURT. 
Excepting the group of Musk Ox, it is intended that this court 
shall be filled with groups of large mammals collected by the 
Museum’s East African Expedition, in 1896. The few cases now In 
this court, and not belonging to this collection, will sooner or later 
be replaced by those whose positions they occupy. These groups 
were all mounted by Mr. C. E. Akeley, the taxidermist of the 
Museum. In the middle of the east end of this court there is 
suspended from the roof of the building the skeleton of a North 
Atlantic right whale {^BalcEna biscayensis). This skeleton has a 
length of 44 feet. 
Just belo\Y this skeleton is a group of Musk Ox. (For a 
description of this and other groups in the West and South 
Courts see labels in each case). 
Beginning at the East end of this court and going down the 
