130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Inferior Oolite Gasteropoda are mounted and exhi- 

 bited in Table-case No. 93, and continued in a small Table- 

 case close by, placed in the centre of the Gallery. 



Brachio'podd.—K number of Permo-Carboniferous Brachio- 

 pods from the Arctic and Australasian regions, obtained by the 

 early explorers, as well as some more recently obtained, have 

 been studied with a view to identify the " types " or figured 

 specimens. 



An examination has also been made of various Silurian 

 and Devonian Brachiopoda lately obtained from Devon- 

 shire. 



The registration, mounting, and arranging of the " David- 

 son Collection " of Brachiopoda has been proceeded with, and 

 during the past year 3,387 specimens have been registered, 

 named, and mounted, making with those previously treated, 

 a total of 1.5,463 specimens. 



Bryozoa. — The whole collection of Jurassic Bryozoa has 

 been re-arranged ; ninetj^-one specimens have been mounted 

 in glass-topped boxes for exhibition in the new Table-cases ; 

 five hundred specimens have been arranged in nineteen 

 drawers in a case in No. 9 Gallery. The remaining reserve 

 collection has been assorted and placed in the drawers beneath 

 Table-cases 84 and 8.5, Gallery IX. 



Nine hundred and twenty-nine specimens of Bryozoa from 

 other geological horizons have also been registered. 



Crustacea. — Some British Carboniferous Trilobites from 

 the River Hodder, Stonyhurst, have been added to the col- 

 lection ; also some specimens from the Culm of Devonshire. 

 Crustacea and Insecta registered 916. 



Annelida. — The collection of Annelida has been finally 

 arranged in Table case 79 and Wall-case 15a, and also in 

 thirty four drawers of Table-case No. 79. 



The number of Annelida registered was 1,762. 



Echinoidea and Asteroidea, &c. (Gallery No. 8). — 

 Various additions to the Echinoid, Asteroid, and Ophiuroid 

 collections have been received, registered, labelled, and incor- 

 porated in the Collection during the past year. 



The number of specimens registered was 455. 



Crinoidea, Cystoidea, &c. — A detailed examination and 

 description has been made of the rare fossil Crinoid Uinta- 

 crinus socialis from the Upper Cretaceous beds of Western 

 Kansas, recently purchased. Two hundred and eighty-seven 

 specimens of Criniodea and thirty-three of Cystoidea have 

 been named and labelled, and added to the Collection. 



The number of specimens registered was 320. 



Actinozoa-zoantharia (Gallery No. 10). — The number of 

 fossil Corals registered was 232. 



Protozoa. — The number of specimens registered was 441. 



