124 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Ichthyosauria in frames, occupying Wall-case 14, have 

 been removed and ai-e undergoing entire re-arrangement in 

 order to accommodate a large newly-acquired specimen from 

 Stockton, Warwickshire. 



Number of fossil Reptilia registered, 75. 



Pisces (Gallery G). — Numerous Mesozoic ganoid fishes have 

 been framed and mounted and placed in the Wall-cases on 

 the east side of this Gallery. 



A new and very perfect specimen of Squatina acantho- 

 derma, Fraas (figured in Geol. Mag., July 1898, pi. x, pp. 

 289-291), from the lithographic stone of Nusplingen, WUr- 

 temberg, has been framed and glazed and placed on the west 

 wall of Gallery between Wall-cases 3 and 4. 



The revision of the Teleostean fishes in the collection, in 

 preparation for Part IV. of the Catalogue of Fossil Fishes, 

 has been continued. 



The Table-cases 49-51, containing the Physostomous 

 Teleosteans of the families Elopidcv, Clupeidoe, ScoiJelidce, 

 &c., have been re-arranged in accordance with the forth- 

 coming Catalogue. 



All the specimens acquired during the past year have been 

 incorporated with the collection. 



Fossil Fishes registered during the year, 424. 



B.— Invertebrata. 



Mollusca. — Ce2)halopoda (Gallery 7).— Eight Belemui- 

 ^eiice ;' 17 Cretaceous and Jurassic Bele^nnites ; 44 Tertiary 

 and Secondary Nautili ; 5 Scaphites and Heteroceras ; 23 

 Mesozoic ArnTnonites ; 11 Carboniferous Goniatites and 

 Bactrites ; and 30 Carboniferous and Silurian Nautiloids 

 have been named, mounted, and incorporated with the 

 exhibited series in the Table and Wall-cases ; and 129 others 

 have been named and incorporated in the general collection 

 in drawers beneath the Table-cases. 



The nomenclature of the Indian Cretaceous Ammonites 

 has been revised in accordance with the recent views on the 

 subject. 



The Jurassic Nautili have been re-examined and some new 

 species described. 



A collection of South African Cretaceous Ammonites has 

 been studied, and a small collection of South American 

 fossils has been examined and described. 



A series of Carboniferous Goniatites has been received, 

 and descriptions of the new forms prepared. 



Cephalopoda registered during the past year, 508. 



Mollusca. — Gasteropoda &nd Lamellihranchiata (Gallery 8). 

 — The arrangement of the Foreign Tertiary Mollusca is 

 being continued. Rather more than nine hundred Austra- 



