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be separated, provided a part of the body be attached 
to it, other arms are reproduced, and a perfect fresh 
animal is formed. Some specimens illustrative of these 
facts are in the Case No. 10. 
The Asteriae differ greatly from one another both in 
texture and form. Most of the species have five rays, 
but varieties are sometimes met with which have only 
four rays, one of which is in Case No. 17. Some species 
have eight, others nine, and again others from twelve to 
thirty rays. 
The Comatulse (No. 16.) have their arms fringed on 
each side with a series of simple rays, and the under 
part of the body furnished with a tuft of simple in¬ 
dexed fibres, ending in an incurved hook, by which 
they attach themselves to sea-weeds and other marine 
bodies. 
One species of Comatula is found on the English 
coast; the largest ( Com. glacialis) is from the Arctic 
Seas. The Fringed Comatula (Com. jimbriata) is from 
India. 
On 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 va¬ 
rious species of Deer ( Cervus ), as the Elk, the Roe¬ 
buck, the Virginian and Mexican Deer, the Rein- 
Deer, the Indian Deer (Cervus hippelaphus ), and 
its varieties; the common Stag and the Wapiti. 
On the top of the Cases are the Skulls of two 
Elephants and a Rhinoceros from India ; the skulls 
of two Giraffes, of the Babirousa, and of several species 
of Dolphin (. Delphinus ). 
The Elephant’s Tusks from Madagascar, presented 
by H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, lately over the Case 
on the South side of the room, have been adapted, 
with His Royal Highness’s sanction, to the beautiful 
Skeleton of an Indian Elephant, 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, which remained in the 
head, 
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