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of the drawers containing them have been fitted with glass. Dr. 

 Duncan has also nearly completed the determination of the Foreign 

 Echinodermata in the Society's possession, and the collection of Bor- 

 deaux Tertiary Fossils has been cleaned and partially rearranged 

 by the President and Mr. Jenkins. 



The following table, containing the number of drawers of Fossils 

 that have been entirely named and mounted from each country and 

 formation, will show more clearly the progress that has been made 

 in this division of the Museum-work during the past year. 



Di-awers. 

 England .......... Lias .............. 36 



* West Indies ........ Miocene 7 



Alabama Eocene 3 



Cutch Eocene ............ 3 



*Scinde ............ Tertiary 1 



*Jamaica Cretaceous and Eocene 1 



Normandy Cretaceous 4 



Miscellaneous Corals 1 



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In addition to the above, the Gosau Collection of Corals referred 

 to in Murchison and Sedgwick's memoir on the ' Structure of the 

 Alps,' has been named and arranged ; as also have the Italian and 

 French Miocene and Eocene Corals. 



The Sharpe Collection of Palaeozoic Zoantharia, in 18 drawers, 

 has been examined, and most of the specimens named by Dr. Duncan, 

 who intends to arrange the species zoologically, their duplicates 

 being arranged geologically in other cabinets. Several American 

 Lower Silurian species have also been determined. It is proposed 

 shortly to form a catalogue of all the series of Corals, and it is be- 

 lieved the Society will then have a named collection of Zoantharia, 

 easily accessible. The Committee hope that Fellows wUl present the 

 Society with Liassic and other rare groups of Corals, in order that 

 the collection may be as complete as is possible. 



Other portions of the Museum-work have not been neglected, 

 Mr. Horace "Woodward having completed the Catalogue of the Fo- 

 reign Specimens in the Sharpe Collection of Mollusca, and the List 

 of Memoirs containing references to specimens in the Foreign Col- 

 lections, both of which were begun last year. 



A number of small mahogany tablets having been obtained, in 

 accordance with the recommendation of the Library and Museum 

 Committee of last year, the formation of a collection of Fossil Poly- 

 zoa, uniform with that of the Foraminifera formed by Mr. T. Eupert 

 Jones, has been commenced by the Assistant-Secretary. 



J. GWYN JEFFREYS. 

 THOS. WILTSHIRE. 

 S. P. WOODWARD. 



* Corals, named by Dr. Duncan. 



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