Contents. vii 



1882-83. 



PAGE 



Additions to the Staff 51 



(Mr. G. A. Boulenger, Mr. W. R. Ogilvie-Grant, Mr. J. J. Quelch 



Duties of Attendants.) 

 Arrangement and Catalogues ........ 52 



Growth of the Collection 52 



(Collection of Batrachians International Fisheries Exhibition 

 Zeller CoUection of Lepidoptera Mr. J. Abbot's and 

 General Hardwicke's drawings.) 



Duplicates 54 



Grants for annual expenditure ....... 55 



Departmental Library ......... 55 



(Temporary employment of Mr. J. E. Harting.) 



THE REMOVAL AND REARRANGEMENT. 

 (1882 84.) 



The Removal. .......... 55 



Rearrangement .......... 57 



Osteological Gallery and Cetacean Room ..... 57 



Mammalian Gallery. ........ 58 



Bird Gallery and Bird Room 58 



Reptile Gallery and Fish Gallery 59 



Shell Gallery, Insect Gallery and Starfish Gallery ... 60 



Coral Gallery, British Room and Insect Room .... 61 



Spirit Building 62 



Zoological Library, &c. . . . . . . .62 



1884 85 



Guides and Catalogues 63 



(Alert Report.) 

 Growth of the CoUection 64 



(Hume Collection of Birds Godman and Salvin Collection of 



the Birds of Central America.) 

 Addition to the Staff 66 



(Mr. R. I. Pocock.) 

 Grants for annual expenditure ....... 66 



Students 66 



1886-87. 



Arrangement of the Collection ....... 67 



(Labels.) 



Staff ... 68 



(Mr. C. J. Gahan, Mr. R. Kirkpatrick.) 



Growth of the Collection 69 



(Sir J. Murray's Collection of the Scotch marine Fauna 

 Tweeddale Collection of Birds and Library Increase of 

 Collection of Lizards Walsingham Collection of Larvae of 

 British Lepidoptera Godman and Salvin Collection of 

 Central American Coleoptera.) 



