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yet quite completed. The exhibition cases have been thoroughly 

 cleaned, and the Starfish Gallery has been repainted. Most of 

 the specimens obtained during the year have been determined, 

 and all have been incorporated. The work of respiriting the 

 specimens in alcohol has been continued, as opportunities 

 occurred. 



WOEMS. 



The first part of Dr. J. H. Ashworth's Catalogue of 

 Arenicolidse has been read for press and is in course of printing. 

 Some text-figures have been prepared, and others, with two 

 lithographic plates, are in hand. 



Four coloured plates from Prof. W. C. M'Intosh's Monograph 

 of British Annelids have been mounted and supplied with 

 descriptive labels ; these figures are of remarkable beauty. 



The systematic rearrangement of the collection of micro- 

 scopic slides has been continued. 



Owing to the state of congestion in the Spirit Building it is 

 no longer possible to incorporate Polychsetes in]their systematic 

 position, and for this reason the recent accessions from the 

 Norman collection have not yet been worked through. The 

 enlargement of the "Spirit House" is, obviously, a work of 

 urgent necessity. 



Anthozoa. 



New cases were supplied for the study collections of dry 

 Corals too late in the year for any use to be made of them ; it 

 is hoped soon to be able to set out the large study collection of 

 Fungiidse. 



The exhibition cases in the Public Gallery have been 

 thoroughly cleaned, and the specimens rearranged. 



Progress has been made with the MS. Catalogue of Pennatu- 

 lids, but it has not yet been possible to complete it. 



As so-called large Corals continue to be offered for purchase, 

 it may be well to state that only exceptionally handsome Corals 

 will be considered when offered on account only of their size. 



PORIFERA. 



Work done during the year has comprised the conservation, 

 arranging; partial determination and incorporation of acces- 

 sions. 



The collection of sponges dredged by Mr. E. Kirkpatrick off 

 Christmas Island has been sorted and investigated. 



A fully illustrated report has been written on the remark- 

 able organism Abtrosclera willeyana, Lister, which Mr. Kirk- 

 patrick believes to be a siliceous Ectyonine sponge living in 

 symbiosis with a degenerate Red Alga, 



