Excerpt from Guide to the Contents of the Australian Museum This Guide is intended to help visitors in their examination of the Museum. For the ordinary visitor, who comes from curiosity or for amusement, the chapter General Arrangement of the Museum, with the help of the plan, will probably be sufficient for those who wish to study, so as to gain at least an elementary knowledge of the animal and mineral kingdoms, the succeeding chapters have been prepared somewhat on the lines of a hand book; while, for students of special subjects, separate and very complete catalogues have been prepared by order of the Trustees. A list of these as far as published, will be found appended to this Guide. 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.