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belong to gigantic tapirs;—jaws, tusks, molar teeth, and 
other osseous parts of the elephant ( Elephas primigenius 
of Rlumenbach), especially those of the Siberian variety, 
which is the Mammoth of early writers: a name errone¬ 
ously transferred to the gigantic Mastodon (Mastodon 
oliioticus). 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 
the Long Gallery, belong chiefly to the two last mentioned 
natural orders : their number has been considerably in¬ 
creased by late acquisitions. 
The first of those orders is divided into the families of the 
Crocodiles and the Iguanas. Among the specimens under 
arrangement^ the following may be specified a species of 
gavial (now considered a distinct genus, bearing the name 
of jEolodon) from the lias at Monheim in Franconia, being 
the unique specimen described and figured by Soemmerring 
in the Memoirs of the Academy of Munich, under the name 
of Crocodilus priscus ;—a portion of the head, with the 
snout, &c., of a gavial ( Teleosaurus Chapmanni) from 
Whitby, which, though correctly determined by its dis¬ 
coverer, Capt. W. Chapman and also by Wooller (Phil. 
Trans, for 1758), was subsequently mistaken for a species 
of Ichthyosaurus; — a head of Crocodilus Toliapicus , 
mentioned by Cuvier as Crocodile de Sheppy ; —the head 
and other parts of the Geosaurus (the Lacerta gigantea 
of Soemmerring) found together with the preceding, and 
first figured and described by the last mentioned naturalist 
in the Transactions of the Academy of Munich;—the lower 
jaw and other parts of the cranium, vertebrae, &c., of the 
huge reptile (Mososaurus Sancti Petri ) from the St. Peter’s 
