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NINTH ROOM. 
In this room are deposited various petrifactions, 
together with osseous aiid other fossil remains. 
The former are under arrangement; among the lat¬ 
ter the more remarkable are the following: 
A fossil human skeleton, imbedded in limestone, 
from Guadaloupe, presented by the Lords Com¬ 
missioners of the Admiralty.—Skeleton of an ani¬ 
mal of the natural order of salamanders, formerly 
mistaken for human (Scheuchzer’s homo diliivn te.s^- 
tis et theoscopos). — K very perfect specimen of the 
skull and horns of the large Irish elk (Cervus gi- 
ganteus), by far the most remarkable of the known 
fossil remains of ruminant animals.—A skull of the 
large extinct Caledonian ox.—Under jaw and other 
bones of the fossil Siberian elephtmt (Elephas 
i migenkis, Bh)) Miich is the real mammoth; and 
: of the gigantic North American animal (Mastodon 
Ohioticus, the mastodonte of Cuvier), which has 
likewise been called mammoth.—Skulls of the 
fossil rhinoceros (i?. Antiqmtatls^ Bl.)—Osseous 
remains of a huge reptile of the natural order of li¬ 
zards, being a genus intermediate between the Mo¬ 
nitor and Guana, from Maestricht in the Nether- 
; lands; and those of the Ichthyosaurus, an ani- 
I mal apparently of the same natural order, but re- 
i ferred to the fishes by Sir E. Home, from Dorset¬ 
shire. 
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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
