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the wall -cases in this gallery, and the re-arrangement of the 

 fittings for the same is now completed. 



The work on the Foreign Tertiary Mollusca ha included 

 the cleaning, mounting and naming of the Oligocene and 

 Miocene Gasteropoda and Lamellibranchiata from the south- 

 west of France ; these are distributed as under : — 



Specimens tableted and arranged in Wall-case - 5,574 

 Specimens named in trays and arranged in 

 Drawers 1,753 



Total - - - 7,327 



During 1894 the Mollusca from the Bordeaux and Dax 

 Basins have been completed. 



The " Prestwich Collection " of Coal-measure fossils from 

 Coalbrookdale has been registered. The figured specimens 

 have been mounted and arranged in the exhibited series ; the 

 others are placed in drawers beneath the Table-cases 

 according to their class. 



The British Post-Pliocene Mollusca (land and freshwater 

 species) have been transferred from their original case to a 

 new and more appropriate one, in the centre of Gallery 8. 



The following slabs have been placed upon the wall of this 

 gallery : (a.) Slab of Limnea longiscata from the Oligocene 

 of the Isle of Wight, (b.) A series of large Inocerami from 

 the Cretaceous of Natal, South Africa, (c.) A slab of Lower 

 Eocene containing Axinea hrevirostris from Fareham. 

 {d ) A slab of Coralline Oolite with Trigonia clavellata, from 

 Weymouth, Dorset. 



The number of Mollusca registered is Gasteropoda 3,389. 

 Lamellibranchiata, 1890 ; total, 5,279. 



Bryozoa (Gallery No. 8). — A new narrow Table-case, 

 specially fitted to exhibit objects close to the glass, has been 

 placed in the centre of this gallery at the north end. In this 

 case a series of Bryozoa, each species accompanied by an 

 enlarged drawing, has been arranged, and printed labels pre- 

 pared for each. Altogether fifty-five boxes containing 

 174 specimens of Eocene Bryozoa ; 152 boxes containing 213 

 specimens of Palaeozoic and Pleistocene Bryozoa, have been 

 exhibited. 



In the unexhibited series ho boxes of microscopic slides 

 and 18 drawers of Bryozoa have been arranged and named. 



The arrangement of the exhibited series of Jurassic and 

 Cretaceous Bryozoa has commenced. Bryozoa registered 

 during the year 5,004. 



BracMox>oda (Galleries 8 and 11). — By a slight reduction 

 in the number of specimens of exhibited British species of 

 Brachiopoda, a Table-case has been gained for the better 

 display of the Arthropoda (Insecta and Crustacea), which 



greatly 



