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NATURAL HISTORY. 
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Iceland, called Surturbrand ;—two busts carved in jet-like bituminous' 
brown coal, the one of Henry VIII., the other of his daughter the. 
Lady Mary. The sculptured tortoise near the centre of this Room, 
placed on a round table inlaid with various antique marbles and other 
mineral substances, is wrought out of nephrite or jade. It was found 
on the banks of the Jumna, near the city of Allahabad, in Hindostan, 
brought to England by Lieutenant-General Kyd, and presented to the 
Museum by Thomas Wilkinson, Esq. 
The specimens in the Wall Cases of Room II. have, many of them, 
been removed to Room VI., where all the Pachydermata will ulti¬ 
mately be arranged. 
The Wall Cases in Rooms III. and IV. are destined for the osseous re¬ 
mains of the Class Reptilia ; the greater part of them is already arranged. 
Cases 1 to 4 are set apart for the Batrachian, the Chelonian and 
Emydosaurian reptiles, now under arrangement. To the first named 
of these orders belongs the gigantic Salamander, the subject of 
Scheuchzer’s dissertation, Homo diluvii testis et theoscopos, Tiguri , 
17*26. Specimens illustrative of the Chelonians will also be placed 
in some of the Wall Cases of Room II. Among the specimens 
of the third of these orders, may be specified the Crocodilian 
division, containing very interesting objects, such as specimens of 
the head with other bones of the gavial (or rather gharial) of 
Whitby, ( Teleosaurus Chapmanni ,) which, though correctly deter¬ 
mined by its discoverer, Capt. W. Chapman, and also by Wooller 
(Phil. Trans, for 1758), was subsequently mistaken for a species of 
Ichthyosaurus ; —another species of gharial (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 
priscusj — ahead of Crocodilus Toliapicus, mentioned by Cuvier as Cro- 
codile de Sheppey , and which appears to be distinct from Crocodilus 
Spenceri , of which the original specimen is likewise deposited here; 
—the head and other parts of the Geosaurus (the Lacerta gigantea 
of Soemmerring) found together -with the preceding, and figured 
and described by the last mentioned naturalist in the Transactions 
of the Academy of Munich;—.he interesting groups embedded in two 
slabs of limestone of the well known Swanage Crocodile (a distinct 
genus) and one of the principal specimens of the Mantellian collection ; 
—the lower jaw and other parts of the cranium, vertebrae, &c., of the 
huge reptile ( Mososaurus Sancti Petri) from the St. Peter’s Mountain 
near Maestricht, presented, in 1784, by the celebrated Peter Camper, 
and figured by Cuvier;— a portion of a new species, from Lyme Regis, 
of the remarkable genus of flying reptiles, the Pterodactylus of Cuvier, 
described and figured by Buckland in the Transactions of the Geological 
Society, under the name of P. macronyx : together with a coloured 
cast of Pterod. longirostris of Cuvier from Solenhofen, the quarry 
of which place has also furnished the small lamina of lias on which may 
be observed the impression (with some of the osseous substance re¬ 
maining) of the last two articulations of the toe of a flying animal, con¬ 
sidered by Spix as related to the Vampire, but which is more probably 
a large and distinct species of Pterodactyle. 
The whole of Case 3 is occupied by the osseous remains of Iguana- 
