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tailed, the spotted, and the gigantic are the most 
remarkable. 
Table 36 contains the shells of annulated vermes, 
such as Dentalium or Toothshell; Siliquaria or 
Fissure-shell; Vermicularia or Worm-shell ; Ser- 
pula or Snake-shell, &c. 
Tables 39 to 42 contain the class Echinoder- 
mata, such as Asterias or Star-fish; Ophiura or 
Snake’s tail; Alecto, a genus allied to Pentacrinus ; 
Gorgonecephalus or Medusa’s-head; Eehinodis- 
cus; Echinus or Sea-egg, &c. 
Cases 43 and 47 contain Corals of various 
sorts. 
ROOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
NINTH ROOM. 
The contents of this room, which is appropriated room ix, 
to petrifactions and other fossil organic remains, n at . Hm. 
are not yet finally arranged. Among the species 
already determined, the following may be specified. 
Of osseous remains of mammiferous animals, 
(Cases 5 to 12) the more remarkable are :—A fos¬ 
sil human skeleton imbedded in limestone, from 
Guadaloupe.—-The bones of several pachyderma¬ 
tous or thick-skinned animals, viz. those of the se¬ 
veral species of Paljeotherium and Anoplothe > 
rium, from the plaster-quarries in the vicinity of 
Paris;—those of the fossil Siberian elephant 
(Eeephas 
