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Over Case 23. A canoe composed of many 
pieces of wood sewed together, from Queen 
Charlotte’s Island; various kinds of paddles, &c. 
Over the Cases 25 and 26. A large wooden 
drum with lateral opening, made of the trunk of 
a tree; a wooden box, &c. 
In the Window near the entrance-door, are 
a j pacuna , or tube for blowing the small poisoned 
arrows in Case 5 ; a bow of the Indians of the 
banks of the Ucayali; some spears made of 
palm wood and some of bow wood, and a bow 
from the Indians of the Maranon ; and a wooden 
spear from the Napo. Presented by Lieut . 
Henry Lister Maw , R.N. 
Table Cases. In the Table Cases in the 
middle of this Room is deposited a collection 
of fossil univalve shells, disposed according to 
Cuvier’s arrangement. 
SECOND ROOM; 
THIRD ROOM; 
FOURTH ROOM. 
These apartments are devoted to Sir Joseph 
Banks’s, together with Sir Hans Sloane’s and 
other collections of dried plants. The second, 
also, holds temporarily Mr. William Smith’s 
collection of English fossils arranged according 
to the strata in which they are found. 
ROOM 
I—IV. 
FIFTH 
