94 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



11. Nine hundred and thirty-five slides of the Parker col- 

 lection of Foraminifera have been cleaned and labelled. 



IV. — Duplicates. 



The duplicates distributed amongst various museums are 

 the following : — To the University College, Dundee, 56 

 Mammalia, 1,476 Birds, 71 Reptiles and Fish, 850 Shells, 

 7 Polyzoa, 52 Crustacea, 33 Myriopoda, 266 Lepidoptera, 20 

 Echinoderms, 3 Annelides, 4 Hydroids, and 7 Sponges ; to the 

 Maidstone Museum, 1 Cape Buffalo {Bos caffer), and 73 Birds ; 

 to Mason College, Birmingham, 9 skulls of Mammals ; and to 

 the Museum of the Cornish Fishery School, 30 species of 

 Fishes, 180 species of Shells, 20 species of Crustaceans, 6 

 species of Polyzoa, 8 species of Hydroids, and 6 species of 

 Sponges. Six hundred and fifty Birds, 50 Eggs, and 40 

 Coleoptera were utilised in exchanges. 



V. — Departmental Library. 



The Departmental Library has acquired, by purchase, pre- 

 sentation, or exchange, 61 separate works in the same number 

 of volumes, besides 708 parts of periodicals and works 

 in progress ; of the latter, 77 volumes have been completed 

 during the year. The total number of works now in the 

 Library is 9,850, represented by 15,843 volumes. 



All the additions during the year have been entered in the 

 Purchase Book, catalogued, press-marked, stamped, and 

 placed on the shelves ; 138 volumes have been bound. 



VI. — Catalogues. 



The following Catalogues have been issued during the year 

 1892 :— 



1. Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XVI., Picarise (8vo. 704 pp., 14 

 plates), by Osbert Salvin and E. Hartert. 



2. Catalogue of Birds, Vol. XVII., Picarise (8vo. 524 pp., 17 

 plates), by R. B. Sharpe and W. R. 0. Grant. 



3. Catalogue of the British Echinoderms (8vo. 202 pp., 16 

 plates), by F. Jeffrey Bell. 



In addition to the above works the first volume of 

 " the Catalogue of Snakes," and " Illustrations of Types 

 of Lepidoptera Heterocera," Part IX., have passed through 

 the Press ; and the manuscripts of Volumes XXL, XXIL, 

 XXIIL, and XXIV. of the " Catalogue of Birds " and a 

 " Catalogue of Madreporarian Corals " are in course of pre- 

 paration 



