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ROOM XII. 
ROOM XIII. 
LONG 
GALLERY. 
arcticus), Red-throated Diver (C. septentrionalis ), 
Lesser Guillemot (Uria Troile ), Black Guille¬ 
mot (Z7. grylle ), Little Auk (Z7. alle), Razorbill 
(Alca tordo ), Great Auk (A. irnpennis ). 
The Collection of British Shells in this room 
are not yet in regular arrangement. 
THIRTEENTH ROOM. 
The remainder of the upright glazed Cases 
for the general Collection of Birds, and of the 
Table Cases, for that of the Shells, not being 
finished when this edition of the Synopsis went 
to press, the Catalogue of the contents of this 
Room, is necessarily deferred for the present. 
LONG GALLERY. 
The Long Gallery above the King’s Library 
is appropriated to the collections of Mineralogy 
and Geology, including Secondary Fossils, the 
arrangement, of the former of which is now in 
progress. The system adopted, with occasional 
slight deviation, is that of Professor Berzelius, 
founded upon the electro-chemical theory and 
the doctrine of definite proportions. In its 
present unfinished state, the detail of the 
arrangement cannot here be entered into ; it 
is, however, partly supplied by the running 
titles at the outsides of the glass cases, and will 
be 
