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Oxford Clay (Leeds Colin.), have been registered, and selected 

 specimens have been mounted for exhibition. 

 Total number of Reptilia registered, 2,854. 



Fossil Fishes (Gallery No. 6). — Wall-case VII., containing 

 Chondrostei and Ccelacanthidse, has been entirely re-arranged 

 and refitted, all the specimens framed and mounted and the 

 labels prepared for printing. 



Considerable progress has also been made in re-mounting 

 and re-arranging various table-cases in accordance with the 

 published Catalogue, including Corax, Oxyrhina, Copodus, 

 Myliohatis, and Ptychodus, among the Elasmobranchii ; the 

 labels for these are now being printed. 



The naming of the specimens of Eugnathidse, Pachycormidse, 

 Aspidorhynchidse, Leptolepidte, and some Cretaceous fishes 

 lias been revised during the progress of the preparation 

 of the Catalogue. 



The " Ward Collection " of Coal-measure Fishes has been 

 examined, and the registration has commenced. 



Total number of Fossil Fishes registered, 1,250. 



B. — Invertebrata. 



Mollusca. — Cephalopoda (Gallery No. 7). — The Rhyncho- 

 lites and some Jurassic and Triassic Nautilidse have been 

 removed from Wall-case No. XIII., and arranged in Table- 

 case No. 59. 



In order to make room in the Table-cases of this Gallery 

 for the Jurassic and Triassic Cephalopoda, the exhibited series 

 of Cretaceous genera, Baculites, Hariiites, Scaphites, 

 Grioceras, and A'}nmonites have been reduced in number and 

 transferred to cases Nos. 60-64, nearer the South end of the 

 Gallery, thus effecting a gain of two Table-cases. 



One hundred and thirty-five Upper Oolitic Ammonites have 

 been named, mounted and arranged in Table-case 65. Three 

 hundred and forty-eight British Corallian, Oxfordian, and 

 Callovian Ammonites have been named, mounted and arranged 

 in Table-case 66. Three hundred and eighteen Callovian and 

 Middle Oolitic Ammonites have been named, mounted and 

 arranged in Table-case No. 67, and two hundred and nine 

 Lower Oolitic Ammonities have been mounted, named and 

 arranged in the same case. 



Sixty-seven Lower Liassic and one hundred and eighty- 

 three Triassic Ammonites have been mounted and arranged 

 in Table-case 69. 



One hundred and thirty -eight Baculites, Glymenice, and 

 Goniatites, from the Devonian formation, have been mounted, 

 named and arranged in Table-case No. 70. 



Cephalopoda registered during the year, 800. 



Mollusca. — Gasteropoda and Lamellihranchiata (Gallery 

 No. 8). — The top lighting, by means of glass-panels, of all 



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