NATURAL HISTORY. 
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ROOM IV.] 
The Table Cases, a few specimens of Annulose Animals, to exhibit 
their systematic arrangement. 
The general collection of insects and Crustacea are preserved in 
cabinets. They may be seen by persons wishing to consult them for 
the purpose of study (by application to the Keeper of the Zoological 
Collection) every Tuesday and Thursday. To prevent disappointment, 
it is requested that persons wishing to see those collections will apply 
two days previous to their intended visit. 
Wall Cases 1 — 13. Spiny-rayed Fish. 
Cases 1—4. The perches, gurnards, the flying gurnards with their 
large pectoral fins, the bull heads, the hog-fish, sea scorpions, the fly- 
ing sea scorpions or sea butterflies, paradise fish, and fingered perches. 
Case 5. The Scienoid fish, maigres, ombres. 
Case 6. The bristle-toothed fish or Chcetodons. 
Case 7. The Holacanthi , the scombers, mackarel, tunny, the 
sword fish with its long pike-like nose : some of these afford a most 
important article of food. 
Case 8. Pilot fish, horse mackarel, john dories, pomfrets. 
Case 9. Dolphins, which change colour so rapidly when they are 
caught ; the sea garters and lophotes, which are very thin and com- 
pressed ; the surgeons, which have a lancet-like spine on the side of 
their tail. 
Case 10. The sea mullets, wolf fish. 
Case 11. The Lophius or fishing frog or angler, with their very 
large head and mouth ; hand fish, so called because its pectoral fins are 
elongate, as if placed on an arm ; the rock fish or Labri. 
Cases 12, 13. Various kinds of rock fish ( Labri ). At the 
bottom of 13, the tobacco-pipe fish and trumpeter fish. 
Wall Cases 14—19. Soft-rayed Fish. 
Case 14. Carp, and other fresh water fish of different countries. 
Case 15. The pikes: the bony pikes, from America; the garpike,, 
which has green bones ; and different kinds of flying fish. 
Case 16. Siluroid fish : the callichthes, which are covered with rows 
of imbricate plates like scale armour; and the loricaria, which has the 
body entirely covered with a hard coat formed of angular scales ; the 
salmon, trouts, &c. 
Case 17. Different kinds of herrings, shad. 
Case 1 8. Cod, ling, whiting. Flat fish : turbot, flounders ; their 
bodies are compressed, and they lie on the white side at the bottom 
of the sea. 
Case 1 9. Remainder of the flat fish ; as the different species of 
soles, finless soles, &c. ; the lump fish, and different kinds of eels. 
Case 20. The remainder of the eels ; sea horses, so called because 
they bear a grotesque resemblance to a horse in miniature when dry 
and contracted. 
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