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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
In Cases 7 to 10 is placed an interesting suite 
of osseous remains from the Kirkdale cave in 
Yorkshire, presented by W. Salmond, Esq. 
Of the scarce remains of birds, there are two 
specimens in this collection from Oeningen and 
the plaster-quarries of Paris. 
Among the bones of the class of reptiles (in 
the Cases opposite the Fire-place), the most in¬ 
teresting are those of several species of Ich¬ 
thyosaurus, a genus of the order of Lizards 
(Sauri) , to which we have given that name on 
account of its having been' first mistaken for a 
fish by Chapman and others. Particularly re¬ 
markable are the carpal bones of the foot of 
Ichthyosaurus immanis , the largest species we 
are acquainted with, from the blue lias of Lyme 
Pegis, and Bath:—the bones of another huge 
lizard belonging to a genus intermediate between 
the Monitor and Guana, from Maestricht;— 
skeleton of an animal of the salamandrine order 
(Batrachides J, formerly mistaken for human*. 
On the same side of the room is deposited a 
collection of impressions of fishes from Oenin¬ 
gen, canton Glams, Monte Bolca, &c. toge¬ 
ther with a series of palates, sharks 5 teeth, &c. 
The Cases 16 to 23 contain fossil remains of 
spiniferous zoophytes (EchinodermataJ, viz.— 
Case 16, and part of 17, species of the ge¬ 
nera Echinus (Urchin), and Echinocidaris 
* Scheuchzer’s homo dilnvii testis et theoscopos ! Tiguri. 1726. 
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