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(c.) A second collection from Miss Slatter of British 

 Jurassic Mollusca. 



(d.) Mr. Bather's collection of Russian Palaeozoic Mollusca. 



(e.) Mr. N. T. Wetherell's Chalk Mollusca from Margate. 



(/.) Mollusca from the Caloosakatchie beds (Pliocene) of 

 Florida. 



(g.) The work of naming, mounting, and arranging the 

 " Robert Bell " Collection of Pliocene (Crag) Mollusca, 

 from Suffolk, has been continued and is nearly- 

 completed. Printed labels are being prepared for 

 each species. 



Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata registered, 2,085. 



Brachiopoda (Galleries 8 and 11). — The re-arrangement 

 and re-labelling of the general collection of Brachiopoda in 

 Gallery 8 has been continued. 



The following collections of Brachiopods have been re- 

 gistered and incorporated in the general collection, namely :^ 



(a.) T. J. Slatter's Collection, Inferior Oolite of England. 



(6.) H. W. Monk's Collection, Inferior Oolite of England. 



(c.) A. N. Leeds' Collection, Lower Greensand, Bucking- 

 hamshire. 



{d.) N. T. Wetherell's Collection, Senonian of Margate. 



(e.) A. Michalet's Collection, Mesozoic of Algeria. 



(/.) E. Lort Phillips' Collection, Jurassic of Somaliland. 



(ff.) Colonel L. Taylor's Collection, from the Silurian of 

 Hamilton, Ontario. 



(h.) The "Thomas Davidson Collection (Gallery 11). — This 

 fine collection of recent and fossil Brachiopoda, 

 bequeathed by Dr. Davidson, f.r.s., at his death, 

 October 1885, containing a large proportion of the 

 " types " figured in. his various works (including 

 his magnificent work on British Fossil Brachiopoda 

 for the Palseontographical Society, which occupies 

 five large quarto volumes, illustrated with over 

 200 plates, drawn by the author's own hands) has 

 now been completely arranged. The Collection 

 contains 22,831 specimens ; these are labelled and 

 mounted on tablets and in glass-topped boxes in 

 three table cases and 105 glazed drawers beneath 

 the same in Gallery 11. 



A slip MS. catalogue of the genera and species in the 

 Collection (including the type and figured specimens) has 

 been prepared. 



Brachiopoda registered in the past year, 2,160. 



Bryozoa (Gallery 8). — During the past year the collection 

 of Cretaceous Bryozoa has been largely augmented both by 

 purchased specimens and by donations. Many of these are 

 figured and described in the volume on Cretaceous Bryozoa 

 just printed by order of the Trustees. 



Number of specimens registered during the year, 6,321. 



