NATURAL HISTORY* 
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ROOM XI.] 
Oil the wall, between the windows, are the horns of some 
species of Rhinoceros, and round the Room, over the 
Cases, are suspended a series of the horns of various species 
of Deer ( Cervus ), as the Elk, the Roe-buck, the Virginian 
and Mexican Deer, the Rein-Deer, the Indian Deer ( Cer¬ 
vus hippelaphus ), and its varieties ; the common Stag and 
the Wapiti. On the top of the Cases are the Skulls of a 
Rhinoceros from India, two Giraffes, a Babirousa, and of 
several species of Dolphin ( Delpliinus ). 
The Elephant’s Tusks presented by H. R. H. the 
Duke of Sussex, which were lately over the Case on the 
South side of the room, have been adapted, with His Royal 
Highness’s sanction, to the Skeleton in the centre of this 
room, in order to replace the original tusks, which had 
been sawn off near their insertion into the skull.—The basal 
portions of the tusks, w'hich remained in the head, are placed 
on the mantel-piece, on the East side of this apartment. 
The Skeleton of the Elephant was presented to the 
British Museum by General Sir Jasper Nicolls, and Ma¬ 
jor-General Hardwicke. It is from India. With it is 
the Skeleton of the Virginian Deer, presented by the Earl 
of Derby, and another of the Arctic Wolf, presented by 
Richard* King, Esq. 
ELEVENTH ROOM. 
This Room contains the general collection of Fish and 
Corals. 
In the upright Cases round the Room are the Fish. 
The Cases No. 24 and Nos. I—8 contain the series 
of dried Fish. 
Cases 24,1 and 2 contain the Acanthopterygian Fishes, 
or those which have spinous rays to the dorsal fins. 
In Case 24 are the Perch tribe, most of which, as the 
Common and Sea Perch, have the ventral fins placed on 
the thorax, before the pectoral. All these have seven 
branchiostegous rays. Others (Cirrkites) have less than 
seven; and some few ( Holocentrum , Trachichtkys ) have 
more. The Weavers, or Otter-Pike, ( Trachini ,) and the 
Star-gazer ( Urcinoscopus ), have the ventral fins just be¬ 
hind the pectoral. The Paradise Fish ( Polynemus ) and the 
Mullet ( Mullus ) have the ventral fins placed on the hinder 
part of the body. 
