4 
MISCELLANEOUS 
[UPPER FLOOR. 
On the upper landing-place are a male and female Giraffe, or Came¬ 
lopard, from South Africa, presented by W. J. Burchett, Esq., LL.D., 
and a smaller Giraffe, presented by the Trustees of the Hunterian 
Collection. The last mentioned Giraffe was brought to England bv 
Mr. Paterson, and is the first ever seen in this country. 
HENRY ELLIS. 
Dec. 29, 1843. 
UPPER FLOOR. 
FIRST ROOM. 
The ceiling of this room, representing the fall of Phaeton, was painted 
by Charles de la Fosse. 
The upright Cases round this room contain a series of artificial Cu¬ 
riosities from the less civilized parts of the world. 
Case 1. Esquimaux dresses, from Winter Island; a whalebone 
net, used by the Esquimaux for laying under their beds ; a wooden 
bowl; a cup and spoon made of the horns of the musk ox; a bone or¬ 
nament, from Savage Island ; some Esquimaux arms ; a small basket; 
a pair of eye-shades formed of bone ; a bow-string ; a culinary vessel 
and lamp, cut out of stone. Over the Cases is placed a sledge from 
Baffin’s Bay, which, together with the rest of these articles, was brought 
to England by Capt. Sir Edward Parry, in 1822. 
Case 2. Esquimaux dresses from Point Hope; a steersman’s cap, 
from West Georgia; men’s boots, and an Esquimaux landing net, formed 
of whalebone, from Kotzebue Sound; a band, w T orn as a maro, from 
Egmont Island; a pair of women’s boots, from Cape Thomson; a 
dart-thrower, from Point Barrow; and a richly carved paddle, from 
Otaheite. 
Case 3. Various specimens of cloth, formed of the Paper Mulberry, 
from the Sandwich Islands, some of them with stamped patterns ; a har¬ 
poon line, made of the skin of a Wallruss, and a sail of the intestjnes of 
the same animal, from Kotzebue Sound; two large teeth of the Wall¬ 
russ, from Behring’s Straits; a stone club used for bruising nuts, and 
three fine mats, from Egmont Island; a cap, ornamented with tufts of 
feather and hair; several bows and arrows, some of the latter tipped 
with obsidian and bone, from California; and a small harpoon, with a 
moveable tip, for spearing fish, from Point Barrow. 
On the sides of these Cases, near the door, are placed three spears 
from Tongataboo, a spear from the interior of Chili, and a paddle from 
Egmont Island. Over these cases are several other spears, arrows, and 
harpoons, from the Pacific Ocean. These articles and those in Cases 
No. 2 and 3, were collected during Capt. Beechey’s voyage of dis¬ 
covery, a.d. 1825—1828. 
Case 4. A seal-skin dress; a dog’s harness for a sledge, and the 
handle of an instrument for throwing bird-darts, from the coast of La¬ 
brador ; a pair of boots ornamented with leather of different colours, 
with divided toes; a leathern whip, and some arrows from the interior 
of Peru. 
