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Important additions to the exhibited collections of Cepha- 

 lopoda are : — Scaphites from the Chalk of Yorkshire (table 

 case 14;, a specimen of Macrocephalites morrisi from the 

 Fuller's Earth of Lansdown, Bath (table-case 8), and a 

 specimen of Orthoceras from the Devonian of Kartal, near 

 Constantinople. 



The Palreozoic Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia registered, 

 labelled, and incorporated during the year include : — Carbo- 

 niferous Gastropoda from Bolivia (A, L. Dun Coll.), Devonian 

 Gastropoda from Kartal, near Constantinople (W. Endriss 

 Coll.), and about 120 British specimens from old collections. 



The arrangement of the exhibited collection of British 

 Cambrian, Ordovician, and Silurian Gastropoda and Lamelli- 

 branchia in table-case 16, gallery 8, has been completed. 



The unexhibited Silurian Gastropoda from Austria-Hungary 

 have been examined and arranged in case A G, gallery 8. 



The Triassic Gastropoda from St. Cassian are in course of 

 arrangement. 



The Mesozoic and Tertiary Gastropoda and Lamellibranchia 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated during the year include : — 

 The Caleb Evans Collection of British Cretaceous and Eocene 

 shells (recorded in Proc. Geol. Assoc, vol. ii, 1871, p. 61); 

 Senonian Lamellibranchia from flints in gravels near Peterhead, 

 Scotland (A, M. Insch Coll.), some British Liassic Lamelli- 

 branchia, including specimens of Gryphaea incurva and its 

 varieties, described and figured by John Jones, Proc. Cotteswold 

 Nat. Field Club, vol. iii (1865), p. 85, pis. i-iv ; a collection of 

 Recent and Post-Tertiary shells from Hungary, presented by 

 Mrs. N. Charles Rothschild ; Pliocene shells from Roumania 

 (Harold Dabell Coll.) and Italy ; shells from the Norwich 

 Crag (R. E. Leach Coll.) ; and marine Tertiary shells from 

 Japan (G. Lewis Coll.) and Madeira (A. F. R. Blandy Coll.). 



The nomenclature of the Cretaceous species of Inoceramus, 

 Tertiary Scalidse, and Post-Pliocene species of Pisidium, has 

 been revised. 



A collection of Post-Pliocene and Recent shells of Mela- 

 nopsis, arranged by Dr. Toth Mihaly to illustrate the supposed 

 evolution of the existing Melanopsis parreyssi, has been 

 mounted for exhibition in wall-case 1, gallery 8. 



A slab of Miocene limestone from France, covered with 

 numerous specimens of Aequipecten praiscahriusculus, has 

 been framed and mounted on the wall between wall-cases 2, 3, 

 gallery 8. 



The Tertiary non-marine Mollusca from France, Germany, 

 Slavonia, Croatia, Hungary, Roumania, and Turkey have been 

 revised, arranged, and labelled ; and a typical series from 

 Germany has been mounted for exhibition in a small table- case 

 in gallery 8. 



Number of specimens of Mollusca registered : Cephalopoda, 

 621; Gastropoda, 4,543 ; Lamellibranchia, 1,813. 



