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repaired and repainted, and are now ready for use. An 

 additional 700 square feet of exhibition area will now be 

 available. The new arrangement of the geological series 

 will probably be of a dual character. It is proposed to 

 arrange as representative a series of fossils as possible 

 in palaeontological order, and to reconstruct the strati- 

 graphical collections, with the addition of groups 

 indicative of the main features of physical geology, and 

 of the lithology of various systems. It is hoped that this 

 arrangement will assist the student of zoology to a 

 better knowledge of the fossil representatives of the 

 groups he studies, and at the same time simplify the 

 work of the student of stratigraphical geology, who is too 

 often overwhelmed by a great series of fossil forms, 

 most of which are more important in their bearing upon 

 developmental, or purely zoological questions than they 

 are in relation to problems of stratigraphy. 



Invertebrate Zoology. 



The removal and extension of this important section 

 to the new room necessitated an entire revision of the 

 whole series. Many of the previously existing gaps 

 were filled, and almost every group extended and 

 improved by additions from the reserve stores now 

 possessed by the Museum. The balance of sections was 

 determined afresh, and the collections so arranged that 

 the student or visitor can follow in regular order the 

 zoological sequence from the highest forms in the main 

 room to the foraminifera on the gallery of the room. 



Whilst the orderly arrangement of zoological groups 

 has thus been maintained, special provision has been 

 made for an adequate exhibit of the large and valuable 

 collections of insects brought together by the late Sir 



