126 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



DEPAKTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



I. — Arrangement. 

 A. — Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia (Galleiy No. 1). — The Savin collection 

 of Mammalia from the Forest Bed series of deposits (Pliocene), 

 in the vicinity of Cromer, on the Norfolk coast, has been 

 registered and examined, and a series of specimens has been 

 selected and placed in the cases. The smaller exhibited 

 specimens have been tableted, labelled, and arranged in the 

 orders to which they belong ; the larger specimens are being 

 mounted by the carpenters for exhibition in the Wall-cases. 

 The greater part of the unexhibited collection has been 

 placed in order in the drawers under Table-case 18, and 

 carefully labelled. 



Table-case 24, containing the Rodentia, Insectivora, and 

 Cheiroptera, has been re-arranged to accommodate recent 

 acquisitions, and numerous specimens have been tableted and 

 labelled. 



A fine pair of antlers of Cervus elaiohus, Linn., from a 

 tufaceous deposit at Alport, Youlgreave, Bakewell, Derby- 

 shire, have been mounted and placed on the top of Pier-case 

 No. 16. 



Numerous photographs, drawings, and explanatory dia- 

 grams have been added to the cases and placed in glazed 

 frames upon the walls of this gallery. 



Loose sliding-trays have been fitted beneath the small 

 Table-cases in the centre of the Gallery, to aiFord accom- 

 modation for such Mammalian and Avian fossil remains 

 as are too large for the ordinary drawers beneath the cases. 



Mammalia registered, 2, .376. 



Fossil Birds (Gallery No. 2 ; Pavilion). — The Cases in 

 this Gallery have been re-arranged so as to accommodate 

 additional upright Glass-cases to contain the new skeletons 

 of jEpyornis, from Madagascar ; that of the recent Ostrich, 

 from Africa ; and the skull of the great extinct bird 

 Phororhacos, from South America. 



Aves registered, 71. 



Fossil Reptiles (Gallery No. 4). — A duplicate coloured cast 

 of Plesiosaurus has been removed from Wall-case No. 13, 

 and replaced by an actual fossil of the same genus transferred 

 from Gallery No. 11. 



Table-case No. 17, containing Anomodontia, has been re- 

 arranged, and the recent acquisitions have been tableted, 

 labelled and incorporated. 



Reptilia registered, 224. 



