128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Geology. 



I. — Arrangement. 

 A.— Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mamraalia (Gallery No. 1), — The skull of Megal- 

 adapis madagasariensis (Forsyth Major) from a newer 

 Tertiary deposit in Madagascar, has been labelled and 

 mounted in Table-ease No. 1, 



The remains of Ursus sp., from the Har Dalam Cave, 

 Malta (part of Mr. J. H. Cooke's Collection), have been placed 

 in Table-case No. 2. 



Coloured Casts of several limb-bones and the Cast of the 

 lower jaw of Elasmotherium, from the Pleistocene deposits 

 of Samara, Russia, obtained in exchange from Dr. Pavlow of 

 Moscow, have been mounted and placed with the cranium 

 previously acquired in Pier-case VI. 



Several skulls, and other parts of the skeleton, of a small 

 species of Hippopotamus from Madagascar, have been 

 mounted and arranged in Pier-case No. XI., together with 

 remains of Hippopotamus Pentlandi, from the Har Dalam 

 Cave, Malta (part of Mr. J. H. Cooke's Collection). 



A collection of Miocene Mammals from La Grive-St. 

 Alban, Isere, has been registered and incorporated in the 

 collection ; selected specimens being mounted and exhibited 

 in the cases. 



The antlers of Cervus elaphus, var. barharus, obtained by 

 Mr. J. H. Cooke from the Har Dalam Cave, Malta, have 

 been mounted and labelled, and exhibited in Pier-case XV. 



A cast of the skull of Nesodon imhricatus (Moreno), from 

 South America, presented by Professor Moreno, has been 

 mounted, labelled, and exhibited in Pier-case XX., where also 

 two diagrams of Goryphodon haTnatus have been placed. 

 A drawing of the skeleton of Castoroides ohioensis, from 

 North America, has been framed and fixed on the wall, near 

 Table-case 24. 



A large collection of Mammalian and other remains from 

 Madagascar has been examined, and numerous specimens of 

 HippopotaTYius, &c. have been selected. 



Numerous other recently acquired specimens of Mammalia 

 have been identified, labelled, mounted, and incorporated 

 with the genera to which they belong, 649. Mammalian 

 remains have been registered 



Aves (Gallery No. 2). — In the Glazed Case (S.) has been 

 placed a very complete mounted skeleton of Aptornis defossor 

 (Owen), from Castle Rock, South Island, New Zealand. 



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