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Progress has also been made with the slip-catalogue o£ genera and 

 species o£ the Cystidea and Edrioasteroidea. 



Number o£ specimens of Echinoderma registered : — Echinoidea, 

 52 ; Stelliformia, 52 ; Crinoidea, 627 ; Blastoidea, 45 ; Cystidea 

 and Edrioasteroidea, 138. Total, 914. 



Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — The acquisitions 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated include : — Specimens from the 

 Ordovician o£ Wales (T. Ruddy coll.) ; Jurassic of W. England 

 (L. Richardson coll.) and of Outch ; Cretaceous of Bohemia (Fritsch 

 coll.) ; and Red Crag of Essex (A. Bell coll.). 



Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 143. 



Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — The acquisitions 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from the 

 Ordovician of Wales (T. Ruddy coll.), Devonian of Germany 

 (S. Dohm coll.), and the Upper Cretaceous of Denmark (Pindborg 

 coll.). 



Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 820. 



Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — Progress has been made 

 in preparing, mounting, and registering Oetaceous Polyzoa as a 

 preliminary to cataloguing. Ordovician Polyzoa from North Wales 

 (T. Ruddy coll.) have also been registered and incorporated, and 

 numerous Palfeozoic Polyzoa originally included among Corals have 

 been removed to the cabinets of Polyzoa. 



Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 653. 



Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10 and Workroom). — The 

 revision of the Carboniferous Corals has been continued, and 137 

 specimens have been cut, including many thin sections. To make 

 space for this collection in gallery 10, the unexhibited Ordovician 

 and Silurian Corals have been removed to cabinets in the Workroom. 

 The Ruddy collection of Ordovician Corals from North Wales 

 has been registered and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 278. 



Porifera (Gallery 10). — Ordovician Sponges from North Wales 

 (T. Ruddy coll.) have been registered and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 16. 



Protozoa (Gallery 10). — The William Hill collection of thin 

 sections of Chalk has been placed in a slide cabinet in the Work- 

 room. Eocene Foraminifera from Nigeria (Parkinson coll.) have 

 also been registered and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 23. 



Plantce (Gallery 10). — A selection of the catalogued remains 

 of Cretaceous plants has been tableted and labelled for exhibition in 

 table-case 19 ; and the catalogued microscope-slides have been 

 labelled and arranged in a cabinet in the Workroom. 



Numerous microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been 

 prepared. 



Number of specimens of Plantse registered, 48. 



