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ROOM VIII. 
Nat. Hist. 
ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
same substance, &c. This table contains also 
the Annulata sedentaria, or shells of annulated 
worms; the third order of the ninth class; 
amongst which are Siliquaria, several Dentalia, 
Magilus, Galeolaria (both very rare), Vermi- 
cularia, Serpularia, &c. 
NINTH ROOM. 
This room is appropriated to petrifactions and 
other fossil organic remains, among which the 
following may be specified. 
Osseous remains of mammiferous animals 
(Cases 5 to 12). The more remarkable are:— 
A fossil human skeleton imbedded in limestone, 
from Guadaloupe, described in the Philosophical 
Transactions of 1814.— The bones of several 
pachydermatous or thick-skinned animals, viz. 
those of the several species of pALiEOTHERiuM 
and Anoplotherium, from the plaster-quarries 
in the vicinity of Paris;—those of the fossil Si¬ 
berian elephant (ELEPHAS^mw^mw5Bl.) which 
is the real mammoth ; and the gigantic North 
American animal (Mastodon ohioticusJ, which 
has likewise erroneously been called mammoth ; 
—those of the rhinoceros (R . antiquitatis). 
Of carnivorous animals we have the cranium 
and other bones of the cavern bear (Ursus spe- 
Iceus Bl.) from the Hartz and Franconia. 
Among the bones of the ruminant animals are: 
—A very 
