130 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BBITISH MUSEUM. 



rock (full of Eocene shells) ; a line slab of Petwoith marble ; 

 a large Cycadean stem ; and a silici fied trunk of a coniferous 

 tree from Portland, have been prepared and mounted for 

 exhibition in the N. E. Galleries. , 



Coloured casts of various fossils have been prepared for the 

 exhibition series, and also for exchanges with Professor 

 Zittel, of Munich ; M. Dollo, of Brussels, and Professor O. C. 

 Marsh, of Yale College, Newhaven. 



Printing Labels : 



Great progress has been made in substituting printed for 

 written labels throughout the cases in the exhibition gal- 

 leries. 



During the past year 2,933 labels have been composed, 

 and 27,820 copies printed off. 



Acquisitions. 1. By Donation. — A. Vertebrata. 



1. Maonnialia. — A very perfect skull of Oreodon Culbert- 

 soni, Leidy, from the Miocene, White River, Dacota, U.S.A. 

 presented by Dr. Joseph Leidy, For. Memb. Geol. Soc. Lond. 



Cast of the skull of Urmiatherium polaki, Rodler. Older 

 Pliocene, Maragha, Persia ; presented by R. Lydekker, Esq., 



B.A., F.G.S. 



A series of fragmentary bones of Elephas, Equus, Bos 'pri- 

 migenius, Bos longifrons, and Cervus tarandus, from the 

 gravel of Mitcham, Surrey ; presented by the Directors of the 

 London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. 



Twenty-three skulls and limb-bones, &c. of Wild-Cat, Wolf, 

 Beaver, Wild-Boar, Red-Deer, Roebuck, Reindeer, Horse, &;c. ; 

 from the Pleistocene Peat Deposit of Walthamstow, Essex ; 

 presented by J. E. Greenhill, Esq. 



About 30 bones of Elephas prir)iigenius, Equus caballus, 

 Hippopotamus aonphibius, Bison priscus, Cervus elaphus, 

 from the Pleistocene of Thame, Oxfordshire (noticed by G. E. 

 Roberts, f.g.s., Brit. Assoc. Reports, Sect. p. 87, 1863), pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Leifchild. 



Plaster-cast of upper molar of Ailurus anglicus, from the 

 Red Crag, Suffolk ; presented by E. T. Newton, Esq., f.g.s. 



An imperfect cranium and part of the antlers of Cervus 

 giganteus, also part of a larger antler, from Ireland ; pre- 

 sented by Mrs. Geoghegan. 



Twenty-six bones and teeth oi Rhinoceros Sumatrensis,&LC., 

 from Auriferous drift in crevices of limestone rock, Sarawak, 

 Borneo ; presented by A. Everett, Esq. 



Portion of jaw of Ruminant, from the Newer Tertiary de- 

 posit. Bains' Kloof, Cape Colony ; presented by Miss Frere. 



Plaster cast of mandibular ramus of Lutra dubia, Blainv. 

 from the Miocene of Sansan, Gers. France, the type specim 

 (Ostcographie, genus Mustela, plate xiv.) Also two plaster- 

 casts of the lower sectorial molar of Lutra Reevei (Newton) 

 being the type figured and described in Quart. Jour. Geo. Soc. 



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