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NATURAL HISTORY. [[UPPER FLOOR. 
THE SALOON. 
The Dome of this apartment was painted by the artist 
who decorated the ceiling over the great staircase, Charles 
de la Fosse. The design has generally been described as 
representing the Apotheosis of Isis, but the most probable 
conjecture is, that it exhibits the Birth of Minerva. The 
landscape and architectural Decorations are, like those on 
the staircase, by Jacques Rousseau, and the garlands of 
flowers by Jean Baptiste Monoyer. Over the fire place is 
a Hunting Piece by Weenix. 
H. ELLIS. 
Oct. 10, 1840. 
The Zoological Collection is arranged, for the con¬ 
venience of its exhibition, in two Series. The vertebrated 
animals and others kept in spirits, are exhibited in the wall 
Cases, and the hard part, or the skeletons of the inver- 
tebrated animals, as the shells, corals, insects, and Crustacea 
are arranged in a series in the table Cases of the several 
Rooms. 
The general collection of Quadrupeds, (Mammalia,) 
is placed, for the present, in this apartment; the larger 
species in upright glazed Cases round the room, the smaller 
in those between the windows, and the Bats in shallow Cases 
affixed to the others. 
The Quadrumana, or Monkeys, Lemurs and Bats, 
which, with man, formed the Order Primates of Lin¬ 
naeus, are contained in the Cases No. 1—4, and in some 
smaller Cases fixed beside them, No. 25—34. Amongst 
the Monkeys, are the Ourang Outang, or Man of the 
Woods ( Simla satyrus , Linn.), found in Malacca, Co¬ 
chin China, and Borneo; also the Chimpanze, or Jocko 
(Simia troglodytes , Linn.), found in Guinea, and on the 
Congo. These animals are considered to approach nearest 
of all others to man, in the form of the head, the size of 
the forehead, and the volume of the brain. 
In these Cases also are, amongst others, the following 
species belonging to the Old world :—the Long-armed Ape 
(Hylobates lar ), India; Lesser Long-armed Ape (H. varie- 
gatus), Malacca; the Siamang (U. syndactylus ), Sumatra; 
the Guereza ( Colobus Guereza ), from Abyssinia. This new 
