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Cephalopoda registered during the past year, 959. 



Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata (Gallery No. 8). — 

 Foreign Tertiary Mollusca. — The task of arranging the 

 Paris Basin Tertiary Mollusca has been continued during the 

 past year ; 4,062 specimens have been named, labelled, and 

 mounted upon tablets, and in glass-lidded boxes, and placed 

 for exhibition in Wall-cases Nos. 3 and 4. Those specimens 

 not mounted for the cases have been named and placed in 

 drawers beneath the Table-cases in the same Gallery. 



Dr. Fritsch's collection of Post-Pliocene Gasteropoda from 

 Bohemia, described and figured by Dr. G. Klika, in Archiv 

 der Naturw. Landes. von Bohmen, vii. Bd. No. 4, Geolog. Abth. 

 Prag. 1891, Woodcuts, pp. 1-122, have been registered and 

 incorporated with the Foreign Tertiary Mollusca. 



Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata registered, 2,792. 



Brachiopoda. — The Brachiopoda from the Silurian and 

 Cambrian rocks of America are being named and arranged in 

 drawers, and a selected series mounted, named and displayed 

 in Wall-cases Nos. 10 and 11. 



The slip Catalogue of Foreign Brachiopoda, begun in 1891, 

 has been continued in 1892, and two hundred and ninety-one 

 additional slips written. 



Brachiopoda, " Davidson Collection " (Gallery No. 11). — 

 The work of naming, mounting, labelling and arranging this 

 celebrated collection of Brachiopoda, and of verifying the 

 type-specimens, has continued throughout the greater part of 

 the year. 



The Collection occupies Table-cases Nos. 13, 14, and 15, and 

 the Drawers thereunder. A slip Catalogue of all the genera 

 and species is in progress. 



The number of specimens belonging to the "Davidson 

 Collection " registered during the past year was 4,246. 



The total number of Brachiopoda registered in 1892 

 was 5,133. 



■ Bryozoa, Table-case No. 84 (Gallery No. 8). — Several 

 additional specimens have been figured and added to this 

 Table-case, and fifty-seven larger specimens of Foreign 

 Bryozoa have been mounted, labelled, and arranged in Wall- 

 case No. 12 in this Gallery. 



Bryozoa registered during the past year, 218. 



Insecta (Wall-case No. 12). — The foreign Carboniferous, 

 Oolitic, and Tertiary Fossil Insects have all been carefully 

 selected, mounted on tablets, named, and labelled ; the 

 unexhibited series are labelled and arranged in drawers under 

 Table-case No. 84. 



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