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NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
ZOOLOGY.
MAMMALIA.
Otters in the Lea at Hoddesdon.—The Fishing Gazette of May 7th
records the capture of two otters (male and female), which were shot near the
stone railway bridge, Rye House, Hoddesdon, on Saturday, April 30th, by-
Mr. Walter Huddlestone, the two weighing over 27lb.—viz., 151b. and 121/2lb.
respectively. Both of them were killed with one discharge from the gun.
They were shown and weighed at the "Rye House" Hotel in the presence of
the proprietor and several visitors.
The New "Whale Gallery" at the British Museum of Natural
History.—One of the latest and certainly not the least valuable and interest-
ing of the innovations at Cromwell Road which we owe to the museum-genius
of Sir William Flower is the new Cetacean Gallery—an exhibition of these
gigantic mammalia which we suppose is unparalleled in the museums of
Europe. Some of the species are demonstrated as "skeleton-models," the
external contour of the body being shown by a casting over the actual skeleton
on one side, the bones being readily seen in proper anatomical position on the
other side. By this ingenious device, not only can a realistic idea be obtained
of the actual appearance and extreme specialization of external form of the
living animal, but at the same time correct notions may be gained of the
extraordinary modification of the mammalian skeleton exhibited in the whales,
particularly of the skull, the fore limbs and the position of the small bones
representing the aborted hind limbs. For the first time in the development of