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ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
CASES 
22 & 23. 
TABLE 
J. 
very large: a lantliorn fiy; locusts, &c. also a 
considerable number of caterpillars, and aurelise : 
several crustaceous animals, &e. 
A great variety of animals of the class Mol- 
lusca; some well preserved specimens of the 
cuttle fish ; various inhabitants of shells ;—seve¬ 
ral zoophytes such as corallines and intestinal 
worms, he. 
In this table is deposited the Cracherodian col¬ 
lection of shells. Among the most remarkable 
are the following; 
(Div. 1.) Testacea moilusca cephalopoda and 
cirrhipoda, among which are, three species 
of argonauts or paper-nautilus ; th^se shells are 
remarkable for the slightness of their fabric and 
the elegance of their form. They are said to be 
inhabited by an animal not unlike the cuttle fish 
which by extending a pair of membranes has the 
power of sailing on th€ surface of the sea.—A 
nautilus, commonly distinguished by the appella¬ 
tion of chambered nautilus ;—spirula or pearly 
liautilus;—a collection of barnacles, animals who 
sometimes adhere in such abundance to the bot¬ 
toms of ships as to impede the motion of vessels 
through the water.—One of the species anatifa 
anatifera was supposed by the ancients to produce 
the Soland goose. 
(Div. 2, 3, and 4.) Moilusca gasteropoda, uni¬ 
valve 
