24 PROCEEDTNGS OF THE 



coida, Arihropoda, Annnlosa, and Echinodermata on tbe other side. 

 [Each of the three wide galleries contains 32 table-cases (with 

 cabinets beneath) and 18 wall-cases. The narrow Cephalopod 

 Gallery has IG table-cases and 14 wall-cases ] 



The narrow gallery between Galleries B and C is reserved as 

 a work-room for the use of students, and will also contain the 

 Geological Library. 



The third wide gallery (C), which has just been fitted up with 

 table- and wall-cases, is devoted to the reception of: — (1) The 

 Coelenterata, comprising the Fossil Corals and Ilydrozoa, in which 

 latter are included the Graptolites. The arrangement of the 

 Fossil Corals is now nearly completed. 



(2) The Protozoa {Spongida, Badiolaria, and Foraminiferd). 

 Dr. G. J. Hinde, P.G.S., has devoted the past three years to the 

 study of the Fossil Sponges in the British Museum, and has just 

 completed an exhaustive memoir thereon (now in the press), illus- 

 trated by 35 plates, which w^ill be issued in July next by the 

 Trustees. 



A Catalogue of the Foraminifcra has been prepared by Prof. 

 T. E. Jones, F.E.8., and has been printed by order of the Trustees. 



(3) The eastern half of Gallery C is devoted to the exhibition 

 of the Fossil Plants. Dr. Woodward ho])es to be able to open 

 this gallery to the public towards the end of tlie present year. 



The fourth narrow gallery (next Gallery C) is designed to con- 

 tain — (1) a stratigraphical collection for the use of Students ; 

 (2) a series of special "type-collections," such as the "William- 

 Smith" Collection, the '"' Gilbertson," the " Sowerby," and the 

 "Edwards" Collections; (3) upon its eastern walls large 

 objects in frames are fixed, such as slabs of foot-prints from the 

 Potsdam Sandstone, the Trias of Connecticut, &c. &c. 



The history of the extinct Avingless birds of New Zealand has 

 received fresh illustrations by the discovery of another entire 

 skeleton of a small but adult individual (named by Professor 

 Owen Dinornis parvus) from a fissure near Nelson, and by 

 parts of another example from a cave near Lake Wakatipu, 

 Queenstown, Otago, N. Z. (named D. didimts, Owen). In this 

 latter specimen the skin o£ the neck, the head, two legs, and feet 

 have been preserved in a dried state covering the bones, and 

 some few feathers of a reddish hue are still attached to the leg. 

 The tracheal rings of the windpipe may also still be seen in situ, 

 and the sclerotic plates of the eyes and the sheaths of the claws. 

 One foot also shows the hind claws (hallux) of the bird still 

 attached to the foot. 



Prof O. C. Marsh has kindly presented casts of parts of the 

 skeleton oi Sesperornis rer/alis, a large wingless bird with teeth, 

 from the Cretaceous rocks of Kansas ; a cast of the very nearly 

 entire flying lizard from Solenhofen {Rhamphorhynchus phyllurus), 

 having the impression of the expanded membrane of the wings 



