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NATURAL HISTORY. 
[N. ZOOL. GAL. 
THE NORTHERN ZOOLOGICAL GALLERY. 
FIRST ROOM. 
This room may be for the present considered as an appendage to the 
two foregoing. See p. 24. 
The Wall Cases contain the collections of Bats, which are ar¬ 
ranged here on account of want of space in the Mammalia Saloon, 
and because they require shallow cases for their exhibition ; and the 
other side of the room is a collection of Nests of Birds and Insects, 
exhibiting the architecture of these animals. 
Wall Case 1—3. On the upper shelves, the leaf-nosed bat from 
Brazils, the vampire, or bloodsucking bat, from the same country; the 
Rhinolophes and Megadermes, from India and Africa. On the lower 
shelves are placed the horseshoe bats of the Old World. 
Wall Case 3, 4. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of 
Java; the Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared 
bats of Europe; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scat¬ 
tered over different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America. 
Wall Case 5. The Moormops and Chelonicteres of the West 
Indies; the Taphozous of Africa and India; the bull-dog bats of 
Tropical America; and the Molossi and Nyctinomes. 
Wall Cases 6—8. The different kinds of fruit-eating bats, 
which from their large size are often called flying foxes; they are 
only found in the warm parts of the Old World and the Australian 
islands. 
The Table Cases. The tubes of Annulose Animals, the casts 
of the interior cavities of Shells, and various specimens of shells, illus¬ 
trative of the diseases and malformation of those animals. 
Tables 1, 2 contain the shelly tube formed by the Serpulce, which 
have often been confounded with shells. The tubes of sand, agglu¬ 
tinated together by the juices of the animal, formed by the Amphitrite . 
Tables 3, 4 contain specimens of shells, exhibiting the different 
sizes of different specimens in their adult age, the changes of form which 
occur in the shell during the growih of the animal, the changes 
which take place in the cavity of shells, the manner in which shells 
are mended by the animal after any injury, and also how the animal 
covers any excrescence which attaches itself to a shell, or removes any 
part which is in the way of its enlargement. 
Tables 5, 6 contain a series of plaster casts of the interior cavities 
of different shells of living mollusca, to assist in determining the 
casts of fossil species often foi nd in rocks. 
Tables 7, 8 contain a series of models on an enlarged scale, and 
some specimens of minute bodies, formerly called Nautili, but now 
formed into a group under the name of Foraminifera. 
In one of the Cases are the shells used for cutting cameos, showing 
the places where they are cut from. 
SECOND ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round the room contain the collection of Rep¬ 
tiles and Batrachian Animals, and the Table Cases the hard 
part, of Radiated Animals, including the Sea Eggs, Sea Stars, 
and Encrinites. 
