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NATURAL HISTORY. 
[UPPER FLOOR. 
Radiated Tortoise ( Testudo radiata) ; the American Box 
Tortoise ( Testudo clausa); many species of Terrapin 
(.Emys ) from America and India ; some very young Tur¬ 
tles {Chelonia); and the head of a very large specimen* 
from the Indian Ocean. 
In one of the Windows are placed some large specimens of 
Snakes, as the Indian Rock Snake {Python), a large 
Rattle-Snake ( Crotalus ), the Mourning Snake ( Coluber 
pullains) and the Crimson-sided Snake ( Coluber par- 
phyriacus); in the other is a specimen and a skeleton of 
the Rock Snake, (Python boceformis). 
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 various species 
of Deer ( Cervus ), as the Elk, the Roe-buck, the Virginian 
and Mexican Deer, the Rein-Deer, the Indian Deer {Cer¬ 
vus hippelaphus) , and its varieties ; the common Stag and 
the Wapiti. On the top of the Cases are the Skulls of a 
Rhinoceros from India, two Giraffes, a Babirousa, and of 
several species of Dolphin {Delphinus). 
The elephant’s tusks presented by H. R. H. the Duke 
of Sussex, originally placed over the Case on the south 
side of the room, have been adapted to the skeleton in the 
centre of the 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 are placed on the mantel-piece, on the *east side of 
this apartment. 
The Skeleton of the Elephant was presented to the 
British Museum by General Sir Jasper Nicolls, ai\d Ma¬ 
jor-General Hardwicke, It is from India. With it is 
the Skeleton of the Virginian Deer, presented by the Earl 
of Derby, and another of the Arctic Wolf, presented by 
Richard King, Esq. 
ELEVENTH ROOM. 
This Room contains the collection of Fish. 
The upright Cases round the Room, No. 24 and Nos. 
1—8, contain the series of dried Fish. 
Cases 24, 1 and 2 contain the Acanthopterygian 
Fishes, or those which have spinous inarticulated rays to 
the dorsal tins. 
