exhibition hall is about 60 yards (54*86 metres) in length. 
This contains 
(1) Ah index collection of zoology. 
(2) A collection of Travancore animals,, of which the 
vertebrates are really very complete and well labelled. 
(3) A collection of horns and antlers of big game from 
various parts of India and Central Asia : this is the “ Sterndale 
Collection,” of which a catalogue (eighteen pages) by 
Mr. R. A. Sterndale was published in 1889. 
(4) An ethnographical collection of great interest. 
The glass cases in which the stuffed mammals are exhibited 
were originally made as air-tight as possible, but the condi- 
tion of the specimens has, I am told, been much improved 
by in each case removing one piece of glass and covering 
the opening with galvanized wire netting of half-inch mesh, 
so as to allow of a free circulation of air. 
Special attention should be called to the following 
specimens in the Trivandrum Museum : — 
(i) The collection of local Cetacea, including skeletons 
and very excellent models, coloured from life,of : — 
Little Indian Porpoise, Phocaena phocaenoides 
(2 specimens). 
Catalanian Dolphin, Tursiops catalania. 
Col. Dawson’s Dolphin, Tur slops dawsoni. 
Speckled Dolphin, Sotalia lentiginosa (2 spe- 
cimens). 
The Dolphin, Delphinus delphis. 
False Killer-whale, Pseudorca crassidens, about 
16 feet (4*87 metres) long; and placed in the 
west porch of the Museum are two jaw-bones 
of a great Indian Fin- whale, Balaenoptera indica, 
from near Cape Comorin, March 16, 1904. The 
length of each bone is about 18 feet 3 inches 
(5*56 metres). 
(ii) Two skulls with fine horns of the Gaur, or Indian 
Bison, Bos gaurus^ from animals shot by 
Mr. Munro, near Devicolum. 
