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1894-1895. the former was regularly kept up to date, and the spirit collection 

 of PolycJiseta was completely rearranged. 



13. Anthozoa. The Treasury sanctioned in 1894 the tem- 

 porary employment of Mr. H. M. Bernard as successor to Mr. 

 Brook for the continuation of the work on Corals. 



14. Hydrozoa and Spongiida. Mr. R. Kirkpatrick had so 

 far examined and arranged the collections of these two divisions 

 that the preparation of the MS. lists could be commenced. He 

 had also arranged the microscopical preparations, amounting to 

 about 3000 slides, in suitable boxes labelled with the generic 

 names, the species being arranged alphabetically. 



15. Polyzoa and Protozoa. Mr. R. Kirkpatrick continued 

 to attend to their arrangement ; but no noteworthy accessions 

 were received in these two years. 



Instructive or exceptionally fine specimens were mounted for 

 exhibition in nearly all the galleries. To the series of Mammals 

 there were added a mounted skin and skeleton of the nearly 

 extinct southern form of Rhinoceros simus, acquired through the 

 enterprise of the Hon. Walter Rothschild; further, two skins 

 and a skeleton of the Wild Bactrian Camel, which Mr. St. G. 

 Littledale procured, with other valuable specimens, on his last 

 expedition into Eastern Turkestan. 



The rearrangement of the exhibited series of Birds was 

 commenced with the Parrots, but only slow progress was made, 

 as the history of every specimen which for any reason was to 

 be removed from the gallery had to be investigated. A fine 

 example of the extinct gigantic Land Tortoise of Madagascar 

 and a South American Mud-fish (Lepidosiren) were added to 

 the Reptile and Fish Galleries. In the Insect Gallery much 

 progress was made : the Hymenoptera and Rhynchota, at first 

 exhibited in table-cases, were transferred to specially made 

 cabinets, the drawers being accessible to the public. In adding 

 to the models illustrating the life-histories of Insects, preference 

 was given to those to which special interest is attached on account 

 of the injury they cause to cultivated plants. Care was taken 

 that all the objects should be accompanied by descriptive labels, 

 and generally by enlarged drawings of minute forms or struc- 

 tures. In the Coral Gallery also many additions were made to 

 the explanatory and illustrated labels, as also to the series of 

 large Coral masses of Madrepora and Turbiiiaria. 



