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Number of specimens of Reptilia and Batrachia registered, 

 341. 



Pisces (Gallery 6). — Wall-case 7 has been cleaned, re-painted, 

 and partly re-fitted to admit some recent acquisitions ; and new- 

 labels have been prepared for the Coelacanths and Crossoptery- 

 gians contained in it. 



A new skull of Portheus, from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A., 

 has been framed and exhibited in wall-case 16. 



Wall-cases 17-18 have been re-fitted for an exhibition of the 

 higher Teleostean fishes. 



The revision of the English Cretaceous fishes has been 

 continued, and new printed labels have been prepared for some 

 of the Chimteroid fishes exhibited in table-case 9. 



Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 142. 



MoUusca (Galleries 7 and 8, and Workroom). — The Cepha- 

 lopoda registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year 

 include : — An extensive series of Ammonoids from the Devonian 

 and Lower Trias (ex Devonian) of South Devon (Vicary collec- 

 tion) ; Carboniferous specimens from Belgium ; a series from 

 the Trias of Austria ; Jurassic specimens from Yorkshire, 

 Warwickshire, Gloucestershire, Somerset, and Dorset ; a large 

 series from the Jurassic rocks of the north of Scotland (Marcus 

 Gunn collection) ; Toarcian Ammonites from Italy ; an exten- 

 sive series of Jurassic Ammonites from France and Germany 

 ( Michalet and Charpy collections) ; Lower Cretaceous Ammonites 

 from Mexico; Wealden Ammonites from Westphalia; Aptian 

 specimens from Kent ; Albian Ammonites from Folkestone 

 (Hilton Price collection); Cenomanian Ammonites from Leba- 

 non ; British Cenomanian specimens (chiefly from theCockburn 

 bequest) ; Cretaceous specimens from Norfolk, Kent, Isle of 

 Wight, and Dorset ; Cretaceous Belemnites from the Salt 

 Range, India ; Senonian Ammonoids from i^orkshire ; Senonian 

 Belemnitellai from Trimingham, Norfolk ; and an extensive 

 series of Senonian Ammonoids from Wyoming, U.S.A. 



Sixty-nine Ammonites, mounted on blocks and exhibited in 

 the wall-cases, have been re-labelled with printed labels, while 

 eighly-five Ammonoids and one Belemnite in the table-cases 

 have also been re-labelled wdth printed labels. 



The naming of part of the unexhibited series of Austrian 

 Trias Ammonites, occupying ten drawers under table-case 12, 

 has been revised. 



The unexhibited series of British Liassic Ammonites is in 

 course of re-arrangement. 



The unexhibited series of British Callovian Ammonites has 

 been named and arranged in five drawers beneath table-case 7. 



The naming of the unexhibited series of British Liassic 

 Belemnites has been revised and the series arranged in ten 

 drawers under table-case 2. 



The" List of types, figured, and historical specimens of Fossil 

 Cephalopoda" has been continued. These now number 1,618. 



