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Roo^ix. In Cases 7 to 10 is placed an interesting suite 
Nat. Hist, of osseous remains from the Kirkclale cave in 
Yorkshire, presented by Y/. 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 
interesting are those of several species of Ich¬ 
thyosaurus, a genus of the order of Lizards 
(Saurl)^ 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 hnmanis, the largest species we 
are acquainted with, from the blue lias of Lyme 
Regis, 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 
{BatracJiides), formerly mistaken for human*. 
On the same side of the room is deposited a 
collection of impressions of fishes from Oeningen, 
Canton Glarus, Monte Bolca, 5rc. together with 
a series of palates, sharks^ teeth. See. 
The Cases 16 to 23 contain fossil remains of 
spiniferous zoophytes {EcJiinodermata)^ viz.— 
Cases 16, and part of 17 , species of the ge¬ 
nera Echinus Urchin), and Ech inocidaris 
* Scheuchzer^s homo diluvii testis et theoscopos ! Tiguri. 1726. 
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