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florin, respectively. Close to these is seen an inseft- 
rearing case, of which there are two others in the 
Museum ; and in them are usually to be found different 
stages of the development of moths and butterflies, and 
occasionally living insefts of various sorts. In front this 
case is a stand of Kaffir Assegais, weapons of war, 
dangerous enough in the hands of those who can pro- 
perly use them, either for stabbing at close quarters or 
for throwing from a distance; while close by are seen 
swords of different workmanship, said to have been col- 
le6led in the East Indies, and many of which are cer- 
tainly oriental. 
On the next table stand two models of Egyptian 
work : one of Pompey's Pillar at Alexandria, a column 
built about three centuries after the christian era, in 
honour of the Emperor DIOCLETIAN, to celebrate the 
conquest of Alexandria ; the other of the Obelisk known 
as Cleopatra's Needle, but which appears to have had no 
more to do with CLEOPATRA than Pompey's Pillar with 
POMPEY. Cleopatra's Needle, which is now erefted on 
the Thames embankment, was built at Heliopolis, the 
City of the Sun, in the reign of THOTHMES III., more 
than sixteen hundred years before the christian era, and 
was re-ere6led in the reign of RAMESES II. at Alexandria, 
from which, a few years ago, it was taken to London, 
after an eventful and stormy passage. Beside these two 
models are shewn three false measures taken from a 
Portuguese shop in the city — the capacity of the measure 
diminished, in one case, by at least one-third. In the 
hand-cases on the same table are exhibited various 
articles, such as Kaffir and Chinese pipes, Kaffir and 
Ashantee ornaments, chiefly anklets, necklaces and arm- 
