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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
man —A very perfect specimen of the skull and 
horns of the large Irish elk (Cervus giganteus)^ 
by far the most remarkable of the known fossil re¬ 
mains of ruminant animals.—A skull of the large 
extinct Caledonian ox.—Under jaw and other bones 
of the fossil Siberian elephant (Elephas primige- 
nius), which is the real mammoth; and of the gigan¬ 
tic North American animal (Mastodon Ohioticm, 
'the mastodonte of Cuvier), w'hich has likewise, er¬ 
roneously, been called mammoth.—Skulls of the 
fossil rhinoceros {R. antiqtiiiads). —Jaws, vertebrse 
and other bones of the several species of Pal^eo- 
THERiuM and of Anoplotherium, two extinct 
genera of animals of the natural order of pachyder- 
mata, from the plaster quarries in the vicinity of 
Paris.—Osseous remains of a huge reptile of the na¬ 
tural order of lizards, being a genus intermediate 
between the Monitor and Guana, fromMaestricht in 
the Netherlands; and those of the Ichthyosaurus, 
an animal apparently of the same natural order; 
but referred to the fishes by Sir E. Home, from 
Dorsetshire. 
TENTH ROOM. 
BRITISH ORYCTOGNOSTIC COLLECTION. 
This room contains the rudiments of a collec¬ 
tion of British simple mineral substances. In a 
* Scheuchzer’s homo diluvn testis et theoscopos ! 
senes 
