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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 Paljeotherium 
and Anoplotherium, from the plaster-quarries 
in the vicinity of Paris;—those of the fossil Si¬ 
berian elephant (Elephas primigenius Bl.) 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 . antiquitatisJ. 
Of carnivorous animals we have the cranium 
and other bones of the cavern bear (Ursus spe- 
Iceus Bl.) from the Hartz and Franconia. 
Among thebonesofthe ruminant animals are: 
—A very perfect specimen of the skull and horns 
of the large elk (Cervus giganteusovhibernicusJ, 
found fossil in Ireland and in the isle of Man;— 
the skull of the Caledonian ox (Bos Taurus , var. 
gigantea), nearly allied to the European domes¬ 
ticated ox bones in the osseous breccia of 
Gibraltar and the coast of Dalmatia. 
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ROOM IX. 
Nat. Hist. 
