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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
NINTH ROOM. 
This room is appropriated to petrifactions and 
other fossil organic remains, among which the 
following may be specified. 
Osseous remains of mammiferous animals 
(Cases 5 to 12). The more remarkable are :— 
A fossil human skeleton imbedded in lime¬ 
stone, from Guadaloupe, described in the Phi¬ 
losophical Transactions of 1814.—The bones 
of several pachydermatous, or thick-skinned 
animals, viz. those of the several species of 
PaLuEotherium and Anoplothertum, from the 
plaster-quarries in the vicinity of Paris ;—those 
of the fossil Siberian elephant (Elephas primi- 
genius, BL), which is the real mammoth; and 
the gigantic North American animal (Masto¬ 
don ohioticus)^ w^hich has likewise erroneously 
been called mammoth those of the rhinoceros 
(i^. antiqultatis'). 
Among the bones of the ruminant animals 
are :—A very perfect specimen of the skull and 
horns of the large elk (Cervus giganteus or hi- 
hernicus')^ found fossil in Ireland and in the Isle 
of Man the skull of the Caledonian ox (Bos 
Taurus^ var. gigantea), nearly allied to the 
European domesticated ox:—bones in the os¬ 
seous breccia of Gibraltar, and in that of the 
coast of Dalmatia. 
Among those of carnivorous animals may be 
specified the crania and other bones of the 
cavern 
