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Excerpt from Guide to the Gallery of Reptilia and Amphibia: In the Department of Zoology of the British Museum (Natural History) Cromwell Road, London, S. W.; Illustrated by 76 d104 and Other Figures The Reptilian Gallery in the Zoological Department of the Museum is primarily devoted to the exhibition of specimens of recent Reptilia and Amphibia, the extinct forms being displayed in a gallery in the Geological Department, to which there is a special guide-book. Recent Reptiles cannot, however, be understood without some knowledge of the extinct kinds; and it has accordingly been deemed advisable to exhibit specimens of a few characteristic examples of each of the more important extinct groups. In addition to these, from considerations of space, the skeleton of the great Dinosaur Diplodocus presented by Mr. Andrew Carnegie is exhibited in this gallery. The specimens are numbered consecutively, commencing with the Crocodilia and going round the gallery to the Chamaeleons. After the latter come the Amphibia. The groups are not described in quite the same sequence in this Guide; at the same time every specimen is numbered, and the corresponding number can be found in the Guide without any difficulty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."