CENTRAL SALOON.] NATURAL HISTORY. 
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THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS *. 
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. 
CENTRAL 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 w^aterbock 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; 
steinbock of the Alps ; Siberian ibex ; thar of the Himalaya, and 
some varieties of the domestic goat. 
Cases 9 to 1 1 contain the equine Antelopes, as the gnu and gorgon, 
from the Cape, and their young; and the different kinds of wild sheep, 
as the argali, from the Altai ; the mountain sheep of North America ; 
aoudad, or bearded sheep, from North Africa ; the nahorr, from Ne- 
pal ; the American argali, and different varieties of the domestic sheep. 
In the corner of the cases is the young of the Bubale antelope, from 
North Africa. 
Case 12 contains the Prong-horn, or cabrik, from the Rocky Moun- 
tains and Texas, and its young. 
Case 13. The caprine antelopes, as the goral and thejhaar, or thar, 
from Nepal. 
Cases 14 to 18. The true Antelopes, or Gazelles, as the chiru, of 
Nepal; the coins, or siaga, and the gutturose antelope and jacron, 
from the Altai Mountains ; the soemmering antelope, from Abyssinia ; 
the mohr antelope, from West Africa ; the spring bock, and the pallah, 
* 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 ot Mam- 
malia, with their Synonymes. List of the Specimens of Birds, Parts L and 111. 
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 ot speci- 
mens and drawings of the Mammalia and Birds of Nepal presented by B. H. Hodg- 
son, Esq. List of osteological specimens, &c., &c. 
