ROOM IV.] 
natural history. (Animals.) 
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Shells of British Mollusca. Table Cases 5, 6. 
Tables 5, 6. Shells of Gasteropodes, as snails. 
Table 7. Shells of Conchiferous Mollusca or Bivalves, such as 
oysters, cockles, mussels, &o. 
Hard Parts of Radiated Animals. Table Case 8. 
Table 8. The first division of this Table contains the Sea Eggs 
and Starfish, and Holothurias. 
The three other divisions contain the Corals, Corallines, Gorgonias, 
and Sea Pens. 
Catalogues of each of these collections are being prepared; the 
Catalogues of the Birds* Crustacea, and Radiata are now to be pro¬ 
cured. 
FOURTH ROOM. 
The Wall Cases round the Room contain the stuffed collection of 
exotic Bony Fish, at present under course of arrangement. 
The Table Cases, a few specimens of Annulose Animals, to exhibit 
their systematic arrangement. 
The general collection of insects and Crustacea are preserved in 
cabinets. They may be seen by persons wishing to consult them for 
the purpose of study (by application to the Keeper of the Zoological 
Collection) every Tuesday and Thursday. To prevent disappointment, 
it is requested that persons wishing to see those collections will apply 
two days previous to their intended visit. 
Wall Cases 1—13. Spiny-rayed Fish. 
Cases 1 — 4. The perches, gurnards, the flying gurnards with their 
large pectoral fins, the bull-heads, the hog-fish, sea seorpions, the fly¬ 
ing sea scorpions or sea butterflies, paradise fish, and fingered perches. 
Cases 5 — 7. The Scienoid fish, maigres, ombres. 
Case 6. The bristle-toothed fish or Chcetodons. 
Case 8. The Holacanthi, the scombers, mackarel, tunny, the sword 
fish with its long pike-like nose : some of these afford a most important 
article of food. 
Case 9. Pilot fish, horse mackarel, john dories, pomfrets. 
Cases 10, 11. Dolphins, which change colour so rapidly when they 
are caught; the sea garters and lophotes, which are very thin and com¬ 
pressed ; the surgeons, which have a lancet-like spine on the side of 
their tail. 
Case 12. The sea mullets, wolf fish. 
Case 12. The Lophius or fishing frog or angler, with their very 
large head and mouth; hand fish, so called because its pectoral fins are 
elongate, as if placed on an arm; the rock fish or Labri. 
Cases 13. Various kinds of rock fish ( Labri ). At the bottom the 
tobacco-pipe fish and trumpeter fish. 
