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ROOM VIII. fish ; ophiurae; alectones; gorgonecephali or Ale- 
Nat. Hist. dusa’s head star-fish, &c. Echini, spatangi, &c. 
Cases 45 and 45. Corals of various sorts; as, 
madrepores, gorgoniae, &c. 
NINTH ROOM. 
room ix. In this room are deposited various petrifactions 
together with osseous and other fossil remains* 
Among the latter the more remarkable are ; 
A fossil human skeleton, imbedded in lime¬ 
stone from Guadaloupe■-a very perfect speci¬ 
men of the skull and horns of the large Irish elk 
{Germs giganteus) by far the most remarkable 
of the known fossil remains of ruminant animals ; 
—a skull of the large extinct Caledonian ox 
under jaw and other bones of the fossil Siberian 
elephant (elephas primigenius ), which is the real 
mammoth, and of the gigantic North American 
animal (the Mastodonte of Cuvier), which has 
likewise been called mammoth ;—osseous remains 
of a huge reptile of the natural order of 
lizards, being a genus intermediate between the 
Monitor and Guana, from Maestricht in the Ne¬ 
therlands ;—jaw and other bones of an animal 
apparently of the same natural order but refer¬ 
red to the fishes by Sir E. Home, from Dorset¬ 
shire ;—the impression of part of the skeleton of a 
species of crocodile from Nottinghamshire, &c. 
The contents of the remaining rooms in this De¬ 
partment, viz. X. XI. and XII. are in the course 
of arrangement. 
