140 ACCOU^^TS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEFM. 



Department of Geology. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — Tke bone implement from 

 Piltdown has been added to the exhibition in table-case 1, and 

 plaster casts of the fossil human skull from Talgai, Queensland, 

 have been mounted in pier-case 3. 



The Lewis Abbott collection of mammalian remains from a 

 fissure at Ightham, Kent, hais been incorporated, and a selection 

 of the more important specimens has been labelled and arranged 

 for exhibition in pier-case 2. 



A skeleton of Canis dims from the asphalt of California has 

 been mounted and placed in pier-case 3. 



Plaster casts of cervical vertebrae of Baiuchitherium osborni 

 have been prepared and mounted in pier-case 8. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 2,646. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — A plaster cast of the skeleton of Diatryma 

 steini from the Lower Eocene of Wyoming, U.S.A., has been 

 mounted and temporarily placed for exhibition on the top of 

 wall-case 23. 



An egg of Struthiolithus from China has been mounted in 

 case EE. 



Number of specimens of Aves registered, 64. 



Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11). — The slip cata- 

 logue has been continued, and the sections of Batrachia, Anomo- 

 dontia and Dinosauria have been completed. 



During the preparation of the slip-catalogue, the unexhibited 

 collections of Anomodontia and Dinosauria in the basement have 

 been examined and more satisfactorily arranged and labelled. 



Wall-case 6, gallery 4, has been cleaned and rearranged to 

 admit some new bones of Iguanodon. 



The carapace, plastron, and limbs of a large turtle, Protostega 

 gigas, from the Chalk of Kansas, have been prepared and mounted 

 in wall-case 18, gallery 5. 



Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered, 

 1,528. 



Pisces (Gallery 6).— The collection of Devonian fish-remains 

 from Granite Harbour, Antarctica, has been registered and 

 labelled. 



The Mesozoic Elasmobranchii in table-cases 4-8 have been 

 revised and partly rearranged and re-labelled during the pre- 

 paration of the supplement to the Catalogue, 



Selected series of teeth of the Eocene sharks, Odontaspis 

 elegans and 0. macrota, have been mounted in table-case 6 to 

 illustrate their arrangement in the jaws. 



All recent accessions have been registered and incorporated, 

 and the more important specimens have been mounted for exhi- 

 bition. 



