DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 137 



DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY. 



I. — Arrangement. 

 A. — Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — In a new Table-case 

 under the window in the first recess of Gallery 1, on the 

 south side, are arranged a few fossil Primates, Lemuroidea 

 and Insectivora, mostly very rare, lately obtained from 

 Madagascar. 



Table-case 1 has been re-arranged and is now wholly 

 devoted to the remains of primitive man, together with 

 flint- and bone-implements, &c., from caves, Ossiferous- 

 breccias, and Quaternary deposits. 



The " Prestwich Collection" of palaeolithic implements 

 from plateau-gravels and river-valley deposits of France and 

 England, with some additions from Africa, India, &c., has 

 been arranged, mounted, and labelled in a specially prepared 

 cabinet with glass-topped drawers open to the public. 



Wall-case 2. — Some masses of Newer Tertiary Ossiferous 

 conglomerate from Olivola in the Carrara Mountains, obtained 

 by Dr. C. I. Forsyth-Major, have been worked out and added 

 to the series in this case. 



Wall-case 3. — The Carnivora in this case have been partly 

 re-arranged. 



Wall-case 22. — A fine skull of Cetotherium from Patagonia 

 has been added to the Cetacea in this case. 



Table-case 16. — The Rodentia (formerly arranged in Table- 

 case 24) have been transferred to Case 16 and are now under 

 arrangement. 



Table-cases 23 and 24. — The teeth of Mastodon, and the 

 series illustrating the development of the molar teeth in the 

 Proboscidea, occupying these cases, are now under arrange- 

 ment. 



Two new pier-cases have been erected on the north side of: 

 Gallery 1. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — The Bird-remains in Table-case 13, have 

 been entirely re-arranged and re-labelled, and those in Table- 

 case ISa partly re-arranged to permit of the exhibition of 

 fossil carinate birds from Madagascar. 



The skull of a new fossil bird from the London Clay, 

 Prophaeton Shrubsolei, Andrews, is exhibited in Table- 

 case 13. 



The eggs of ^pyornis have been placed in the same case 

 with the mounted skeleton of ^pyornis Hildehrandti. 



