SYNOPSIS 
ETC. 
The Visitor to the Museum, having passed the Entrance .in Great 
Russell Street, enters a spacious Court, with the main building of the 
New Museum fronting him. Upon entering the Hall he can either 
turn to the left to the Gallery of Antiquities hereafter described, or, in 
the more regular course of his Circuit, ascend by the Great Staircase to 
THE ZOOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS.* 
The collection of Animals is contained in three Galleries, and for 
the convenience of exhibition is arranged in two series. The Beasts, 
Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes, are exhibited in the Wall Cases. The 
hard parts of the Radiated, Molluscous, and Annulose animals, as 
Shells, Corals, Sea Eggs, Star Fish, Crustacea, and Insects, 
and the Eggs of Birds, are arranged in a series in the Table Cases 
of the several Rooms. 
CENTRAL SALOON. 
In the Wall Cases of this Saloon are arranged the specimens of 
Antelopes, Goats, and Sheep, and over the Cases, the horns of the 
different specimens of Oxen; and on the Floor, the Giraffe from 
North, and the Giraffe from South Africa, the latter presented by the 
Earl of Derby; the African Rhinoceros, the Manilla Buffalo, and the 
Morse, or Walrus, from the North Sea. 
Wall Cases 1 to 5 contain the waterbock and caprine antelopes, as 
the blaue bock, the black bock or sable antelope, the bloss bock, and 
the Cape Oryx, from the Cape of Good Hope ; the addax and its 
young, and the algazelle, from North Africa. 
On the upper shelves are the young of the Cape Oryx and the bloss 
bock, from South Africa; the chamois, or gems, from the Alps; the 
sing-sing and the koba, from Western Africa. 
Wall Cases 6 to 8 contain the Antelopes, as the sassaybi, licama or 
hartebeast; and the Goats, as jaela, or Nubian goat of North Africa; 
steinbock of the Alps; Siberian ibex; thar of the Himalaya, and 
some varieties of the domestic goat. 
Wall Cases 9 to 11 contain the equine Antelopes, as the gnu and 
gorgon, from the Cape, and their young; and the different kinds of 
wild sheep, as the argali, from the Altai; the mountain sheep of North 
America; aoudad, or bearded sheep, from North Africa; the nahorr, 
from Nepal; the American argali, and different varieties of the domestic 
sheep. In the corner of the cases is the young of the Bubale antelope, 
from North Africa. 
* For a more detailed and scientific explanation of the Zoological Collection, 
there are published a series of small Catalogues, which may be purchased in the 
Secretaries’ Office at the Museum, or at any Bookseller’s. A List of these Cata¬ 
logues, with the price, are in the end of this Synopsis. 
