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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Among the objects separately placed in Room I. are— 
near the window opposite to the Table Case containing 
the native silver, a branched variety of that^ metal from 
Kongsberg, presented by H. Heuland, Esq.;—in the win¬ 
dow, near the Table Cases containing the Sulphates, a 
very large mass of Websterite, from Newhaven, Sussex, 
presented by Dr. Mantell;—a large specimen of the 
brown coal of Iceland, called Surturbrand, presented by 
Sir Joseph Banks ;—two busts carved in jet-like bitu¬ 
minous brown coal, the one of Henry VIII., the other 
of his daughter the Lady Mary. 
The Wall Cases in Room II. contain osseous remains (both 
original and in plaster casts) of the orders Edentata and 
Pachydermata. To the former of these the Megatherium 
(M. Cuverii) is generally referred, of which the casts here de¬ 
posited, though constituting only a small portion of the whole 
skeleton, are sufficient to convey an idea of the consider¬ 
able dimensions of this animal.—Among the specimens of 
the last mentioned natural order, may be specified the re¬ 
mains of two species of that extraordinary genus, the Dei - 
notherium , lately discovered in Bavaria, some of the teeth 
of which were known to Cuvier, who supposed them to 
belong to gigantic tapirs;—jaws, tusks, molar teeth, and 
other osseous parts of the elephant ( Elephas primigenius 
of Blumenbach), especially those of the Siberian variety, 
which is the Mammoth of early writers: a name errone¬ 
ously transferred to the gigantic Mastodon ( Mastodon 
ohioticus). There are various species of this latter genus, 
the osseous remains of which are now under arrangement, 
together with those of several species of Rhinoceros, Ano- 
plotherium, Palaeotherium, Tapir, &c. 
In a distinct Case at the N. side of this Room is de¬ 
posited the fossil human skeleton embedded in limestone, 
brought from Guadaloupe by Admiral the Hon. Sir Alex¬ 
ander Cochrane, and presented to the British Museum by 
the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. 
In Rooms III. and IV. several wall Cases are to be fitted 
up for the Class Reptilia, comprising osseous remains of 
the Batrachian, the Chelonian, the Emydosaurian, 
and the Enaliosaurian Orders. The specimens of Rep¬ 
tiles removed to Room III from the Room lately called 
