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Tables 7, 8. The Sea Pancakes, which are so depressed that there 
scarcely appears to be any room for their internal viscera ; some of them 
are lobed or fingered on the margin, and others pierced with slits. 
Table 9. The Galerites, which are most abundant in a fossil state ; 
and some of the Sea Hearts, the species of which are continued into 
and occupy Case 10. 
Tables 11 — 18. The Star- Fish. 
Some have five and others many rays ; some have the surface 
scattered with tubercles placed on the junction of a net-like skeleton, 
and others are formed of flat-topped pieces, like a tessellated pavement, 
each separate stem being fringed with an edge of minuter pieces ; some 
of them bear on the top of each of the flat pieces a solid tubercle, 
which often falls off when the animal is dead. 
Tables 19 — 23. The Lizard-tailed Star-fish, 
So called because they often throw off the end of their rays when they 
are handled or put into fresh water, as lizards do when they are caught 
and cannot escape. 
Table 23. The Gorgon’s Head, 
The arms of which are repeated branches, so as to end in in- 
numerable flexible filaments, by which the animal attaches itself to 
marine bodies, and strains its food from the surrounding water. 
Table 24. The Comatula or Sea Wigs, 
Which are the recent representatives of encrinites, found so abundantly 
in certain rocks. 
THIRD ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round this Room contain, until another Room is 
prepared for them, the Glirine Mammalia, and part of the collection 
of Fish ; and the Table Cases the different kinds of Corals. 
The Wall Cases. Mammalia. 
Case 24. On the upper shelves, the leaf-nosed bat from Brazils, 
the vampire, or bloodsucking bat, from the same country ; the Rhino- 
lophes and Megadermes, from India and Africa. On the lower shelves 
are placed the horseshoe bats of the Old World. 
Case 25. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of Java; the 
Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared bats of 
Europe ; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scattered over 
different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America. 
Case 26. The Moormops and Chelonicteres of the West Indies ; 
the Taphozous of Africa and India; the bull-dog bats of Tropical 
America ; and the Molossi and Nyctinomes. 
Cases 27—29. The different kinds of fruit-eating bats, which from 
their large size are often called flying foxes ; they are only found in 
the warm parts of the Old World and the Australian islands. 
