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greatly increased their accessibility. T he most important 

 addition to this collection was the skeleton of the rare 

 monkey-eating Eagle {Pitheco'jjhaga jefferyi) from the Philip- 

 pines, the skin of which has been mounted and placed in the 

 Bird Gallery. 



Reptilia, Batrachia, Pisces. 



The additions have been entered in the register and put 

 av:ay in the collection, so far as the crowded condition of the 

 Spirit Building has permitted. A part of the Collection of 

 Lizards has been rearranged and the second volume of the 

 Catalogue of African Fresh-water Fishes has been completed. 

 A partial rearrangement of the skins and skeletons of Reptiles 

 and Fishes has been started. 



The additions during the year to the exhibited series of 

 Reptiles include the following: — A Smooth Snake, presented 

 by G. B. Corbin, Esq. Three Indian Snnkes, presented by 

 Major Wall. Models of Common and Natterjack Toads, 

 presented by Rowland Ward, Esq. 



In the Fish Gallery, thirty-five additions have been made 

 to the exhibited series, comprising thirty fishes, which have 

 been mounted and tinted in their natural colours and five 

 morphological preparations. Fifty-seven fishes have been 

 re-varnished and eight have been repaired. 



Sixty-five printed labels have been substituted for the 

 temporary manuscript labels previously shown ; and forty-six 

 additions have been made to the card-catalogue of exhibited 

 specimens. 



A Guide to the British Vertebrates is noticed above, under 

 '•' Aves." 



MOLLUSCA. 



The large collection of Mollusca obtained by Professor 

 J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in the Islands of the Indian Ocean 

 has been examined and compared with the Report upon it by 

 Mr. J. C. Melvill ; and a selection has been made from it of 

 828 specimens. These have all been mounted, labelled and 

 incorporated. 



Another series from South Africa has been worked out and 

 a report prepared for publication. The specimens belonging to 

 the genus Vulsella have been critically examined and a paper 

 written upon the subject. A selection has been made from a 

 collection made at Bermuda by Major A.. J. Peile ; it has been 

 partly determined and a list of the fauna has been in preparation. 

 Collections of Marine shells from Queensland, Fhysa from 

 South Australia, and specimens from Travancore received from 

 the Trivandrum Museum, also some species of Olivella, Fusus^ 

 Bulhnus, Clausilia and other genera have been identified. 

 The specimens obtained by the late Mr. Stalker of the New 

 Guinea Expedition at the Aru and Goram Islands have been 

 named. The study collections of Chitonidse and Nassa have 



