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Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — The collection of 

 Cretaceous Cheilostome Polyzoa from France, and recently- 

 acquired specimens from Spain and various English districts, 

 chiefly Sussex, the Thames valley, and Cambridge, have been 

 sorted, cleaned, mounted, and registered as a preliminary to the 

 preparation of Vol. iii of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Polyzoa. 

 Recently-acquired specimens from other formations have been 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated, the largest collection 

 of these, comprising 250 specimens from the Cornbrash and 

 Great Oolite of Northamptonshire (Jesson Coll.). 



Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 2,190. 



Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10). — A. table-top made 

 of pieces of Devonian Corals, presented by the late W. Vicary, 

 Esq., in 1881, has been removed from wall-case 5, where it 

 was unsuitably exhibited, re-framed and hung on the wall 

 between wall-cases 4 and 5, and a framed label placed beneath. 



A large specimen of Lophophyllum, presented by Dr. James 

 Galloway, has been cut, polished, and mounted with explanatory 

 label in wall-case 4. 



Newly -acquired specimens have been registered, labelled, 

 and incorporated, from the Eocene and Cretaceous of Spain 

 (Mrs. A. S. Woodward Coll.), Chalk Marl of Cambridge 

 (Mockler), Carboniferous of Yorkshire (Wilmore), Devonian 

 of Asia Minor ( Mrs. A. S. Woodward), Silurian of Wales and 

 Silurian of Sweden (Bather). 



Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 

 627. 



Porifera (Gallery 10). — The Taylor Collection of Archseo- 

 cyathinse has been exhibited in table-case 15 with explanatory 

 diagrams and labels. 



Framed explanatory labels have been attached to the large 

 block of Hydnoceras exhibited in a special case at the northern 

 end of gallery 10. 



Chalk sponges from Surrey, Sussex, and Kent have been 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 41. 



Protozoa (Gallery 10). — The collection of Jurassic Foramini- 

 fera mounted on about 2,350 slides has been labelled and 

 transferred to a new cabinet, specially provided. 



More of the samples of rock in the collection of the late 

 Rev. J. F. Blake have been washed, and the contained fossils 

 extracted, mounted, registered, and labelled. These include 

 specimens from the London Clay of Elstree, and of Sheppey, 

 the Chalk of Gravesend, the Gault of Folkestone, the Lower 

 Greensand of Hythe, the Kimmeridge Clay of Weymouth, the 

 Oxford Clay of Weymouth, and the Oolite Marl of Gloucester- 

 shire. 



