DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



set of the specimens collected will be deposited. A large 

 number of Fishes have already been sent from the Lower 

 Nile by Mr. Loat, the naturalist entrusted with the collection 

 by the Egyptian Government, but the selection of specimens 

 for the Museum will not be made until the completion of the 

 survey. Numerous and important additions from the Congo 

 Basin have again been received, principally through the 

 Government of the Congo Free State. 



Tunicata. — A new case containing a series of specimens in 

 spirit has been set up in the Shell Gallery. 



Mollusca. — The re-mounting in glass-topped boxes of the 

 study-collection has made further progress, and the replacing 

 of written by printed labels has been continued. 



A selection of the acquisitions during the year has been- 

 mounted upon tablets and exhibited in the table-cases, the 

 rest being placed in glazed boxes in the drawers beneath. 



The following collections have been worked out and 

 described. Specimens from Christmas Island, collected by 

 Mr. Andrews ; from N.W. Persia, collected by Mr. K. T. 

 Glinther ; from Sokotra, collected by Messrs. Forbes and 

 Grant ; from South China, by Captain Wingate ; from the 

 Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, obtained by the 

 " Investigator "; and Sir H. H. Johnston's shells from British 

 Central Africa. Smaller series of specimens from South 

 Africa and Somali-land have also been described, and a large 

 collection of shells sent by Dr. Jayakar from Muscat has 

 been named. 



Arachnida. — A start has been made in setting up a fresh 

 series of Arachnida in the Public Gallery. 



Some specimens of Trilobites and Eurypterida have been 

 transferred from the Geological Department for the purpose, 

 and considerable progress has been made in arranging them 

 and writing appropriate descriptive labels. 



Many of the Central and South American Spiders in the 

 collection have been named by Mr. F. O. Pickard Cambridge. 

 Mr. H. R. Hogg has determined many of the Australian 

 Spiders, and duplicate specimens of Stylocellus, Pettalns, 

 and Cryptostemona were sent to Dr. Hanson for examination 

 and determination and were safely returned. 



The following collections have been worked out : — 



The Arachnida and Myriopoda, collected by Mr. Andrews 

 in Christmas Island. 



The Arachnida and Myriopoda, collected by Messrs. Quelch 

 and F. V. McConnell on Mount Roraima. 



The Arachnida and Myriopoda, collected by Mr. E. T. 

 Glinther at Seir in Persia. 



The Arachnida and Myriopoda, collected by Mr. W. R. Ogilvie- 

 Grant and Dr. H. 0. Forbes in Abd-el-Kuri and Sokotra. 



The Scorpions, Spiders, and Ticks collected by Mr. C. V. A» 

 Peel in Somaliland* 



