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parallel divisions, into four classes, viz. Earths, 
Metals, Inflammable Substances, and Salts. 
These divisions (as soon as convenient room 
shall be obtained) are to be continued, in the 
same direction, through the whole series of table 
cases, so that it may be ascertained at one view, 
if any and which of the substances belonging to 
those classes, are to be met with in any given 
part of Great Britain. 
ELEVENTH ROOM. 
In this room is deposited the collection of Bri¬ 
tish Zoology The birds are disposed in cases 
round the room, into the following grand divi¬ 
sions or orders :— 
The first order consists of the Accipitres, or 
Predaceous Birds (Cases 1 to 6) : it contains the 
genera Falco and Strix (eagles, falcons, hawks, 
and owlsJ. Among the species of the first genus 
maybe distinguished two races: one of them com¬ 
prehending those birds named Noble, the greater 
portion of which were used in falconry, such as 
the peregrine falcon (including the supposed spe¬ 
cies named the starry, the blue-back falcon, and 
the lanner, of British writers), the hobby, the 
merlin (including what is called the stone falcon ), 
the kestril , and the gerfalcon (of which the is- 
* With the exception of the table-case in the middle of the room, 
which contains a selection from the general collection of Insects illns- 
trative of the orders and genera of this class. 
ROOM X. 
Nat. Hist. 
ROOM XI. 
Nat. Hist. 
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