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has been measured from thirty-five to forty feet. Only 
comparatively small specimens of this latter species, 
unfortunately, are to be seen in the Museum. The 
skin of the Land-camoodie exhibited, from its mode 
of preparation, was unsuited for mounting as a 
stuffed specimen. The median row of well-defined, 
light-coloured, elongated areas, alternating with dark, 
purplish, saddle-like markings, joined laterally to 
each other and enclosing the light-coloured spots, are 
characteristic of this species, and easily separate it from 
the dark-brown Water-camoodie with its double row of 
circular black patches along the back. The Boas like 
the allied Pythons of India, are destitute of poison-fangs 
and poison-glands, and kill their prey simply by con- 
striaion, by which means they diminish the size of the 
objeft and render it more easily swallowed. 
On each side hang charts illustrating the chief types of 
the higher classes, orders and families of the Animal 
Kingdom, together with diagrams of the chief geological 
formations and their charafteristic fossils. 
Entering the Museum proper, the visitor sees the 
colle&ion arranged along three distin-6l- lines— one central 
and two lateral, while miscellaneous specimens hang from 
the sides of the building. In the central row fronting the 
entrance, stands a colleaion of photographs, chiefly of 
native Indians in their normal costume, and of coolies, 
taken by SlZA, and by him exhibited in the British Guiana 
Court of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 
At this point a certain amount of perplexity is felt as 
to how best to view the heterogeneous collection exhi- 
bited. In order to inspea the different objeas in 
somewhat of classified sequence, the visitor would be 
