DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 12S 



DEPAKTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



I. — A rrangement. 

 A.— Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — The Lemiiroidea in 

 Table-case 1 have been revised, re-arranged, and re-Jabelled. 



The skull of Elephas ganesa has been entirely remounted 

 on a permanent stand, with the tusks in their natural posi- 

 tion, and placed in the centre of Gallery 1. 



The skull of a whale (Balcena), from the supra-Pampean 

 Deposits of Argentina, has been mounted and exhibited near 

 Wall-case 28. 



In Wall-case 15 the remains of Cervidse have been to a 

 great extent remounted and re-arranged in order to accom- 

 modate the "Savin Collection" of Deer remains from the 

 Norfolk Forest Bed. 



Special labels have been prepared for several cases in the 

 Gallery, and a large number of additional specimens have 

 been distributed in the various groups throughout the 

 collection. 



Number of Mammalia registered, 429. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — A mounted skeleton of Diaphorapteryx 

 Hawkinsi, an extinct rail from the Chatham Islands, has 

 been placed in Wall-case 25. 



Photographs of a complete skeleton of Megalapteryx 

 tenuipes, and of a fossil ostrich egg from Northern China, 

 have been framed and exhibited. 



A coloured reproduction of the type-specimen of Ar'chce- 

 opteryx Siemensi (the original of which is preserved in the 

 Berlin Museum), has been placed in Table-case 13. 



Number of Bird remains registered, 50. 



Reptilia and Amphibia (Galleries 3, 4, and 5). — Table- 

 cases 1-8 (Ornithosauria, Ichthyopterygia, and Sauro- 

 pterygia) have been re-arranged, and the specimens in the 

 drawers beneath the table-cases have all been provided with 

 special labels. Many specimens have been mounted with a 

 diagram and label descriptive of their structure. 



The specimens of Anomodont reptiles in drawers beneath 

 Table-cases 17 and 18 have been arranged and labelled, and 

 a number of printed labels have been added to the Wall- 

 cases. 



In Wall-case No. 7 the remains of a large terrestrial 

 dinosaur (Avalonia Sanfordi, Seeley) from the Rhaetic Beds 

 of Wedmore Hill, Somersetshire, are exhibited. 



