ZOOLOGY 
THE CENTRAL SALOON *. 
The collection of Animals is contained in three Galleries, and for the 
convenience of exhibition is arranged in two series. The Beasts, 
Birds, Reptiles, Fish, and the specimens of the other smaller ani- 
mals kept in spirits, are exhibited in the Wall Cases. The hard parts 
of the Radiated, Annulose, and Molluscous animals, as Shells, 
Corals, Sea Eggs, Star Fish, Crustacea, and Insects, are ar- 
ranged, as are also the Skulls of the smaller beasts, and the Eggs 
of Birds, in a series in the Table Cases of the several Rooms. 
mammalia saloon. 
In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are arranged the specimens of 
Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep, and over the Cases, the horns of the 
different specimens of Oxen ; and on the Floor, the Giraffe from 
North, and the Giraffe from South Africa, the latter presented by the 
Earl of Derby. 
Cases 1 to 5 contain the waterbock and caprine antelopes, as the 
blaue bock, the black bock or sable antelope, the bloss bock, and the 
Cape Oryx, from the Cape of Good Hope ; the addax and its young, 
and the algazelle, from North Africa. 
On the upper shelves are the young of the Cape Oryx and the bloss 
bock, from South Africa ; the chamoise, or gems, from the Alps ; the 
sing-sing and the koba, from Western Africa. 
Cases 6 to 8 contain the Antelopes, as the sassaybi, licama or harte- 
beast ; and the Goats, as jaela, or Nubian goat of North Africa ; 
* For an explanation of the method on which the Zoological Collection is arranged, 
and a list of the genera, see a small work called the “ Guide to the Zoological Col- 
lection,” sold in the Hall ; where may also he had a List of the Specimens of Mam- 
malia, with their Synonymes. List of the Specimens of Birds, Parts I. and III. 
Catalogue of Reptiles, Parts I. and II. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous 
Insects, Parts 1. and II. List of the specimens of Myriapodes. List of specimens 
of .Crustacea. List of Cetoniadae. List of Osteological specimens. List of speci- 
mens and drawings of the Mammalia and Birds of Nepal presented by B. H. Hodg- 
son, Esq. 
