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The slip-catalogue of exhibited specimens has been con- 

 tinued. 



Progress has been made in the revision and rearrangement 

 of the Cystidea. 



Number of specimens of Echinoderma registered : Echinoidea, 

 583 ; Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea, 25 ; Crinoidea, 385 ; Blas- 

 toidea, 2 ; Cystidea, 89. Total, 1,084. 



Annelida (Gallery 8 and Workroom), — The acquisitions 

 registered, labelled, and incorporated include specimens from 

 the Calciferous Sandstone of Fife (J. Wright Coll.), the 

 Neocomian of Hanover (A. Schrammen Coll.), the Chalk Marl 

 near Cambridge (F. Mockler Coll.), and the Upper Cretaceous 

 of Egypt (Geol. Survey Egypt). 



A few additions have been made to the exhibited series, 

 and some labels revised and reprinted. The slip-catalogue of 

 these additions has been continued. 



Number of specimens of Annelida registered, 70. 



Brachiopoda (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — Progress has 

 been made with the registration of the foreign specimens in 

 the Walker Collection, which is now nearly completed. 



Number of specimens of Brachiopoda registered, 13,811. 



Polyzoa (Gallery 8 and Workroom). — Recently-acquired 

 specimens of Cretaceous Polyzoa, chiefly from Cambridge, 

 Dorset, Kent, Surrey, Sussex, and Eiigen, have been cleaned, 

 mounted, and registered as a preliminary to the preparation 

 of Vol. III. of the Catalogue of Cretaceous Polyzoa. Of 

 specimens from other formations registered and incorporated, 

 the chief is that of Russian Ordovician Polyzoa, partly 

 collecfced and presented by Dr. F. A, Bather, partly acquired 

 from Dr. R. S. Bassler, who has identified and described the 

 whole collection in Bulletin, No. 77, of the Smithsonian 

 Institution. 



Number of specimens of Polyzoa registered, 2,70C. 



Anthozoa and Hydrozoa (Gallery 10). — A special case has 

 been made and placed in the middle of Gallery 10 for 

 exhibiting part of a collection of Carboniferous Corals made 

 by Dr. Vaughan, and illustrating the zonal divisions recognised 

 by him in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Avon Gorge by 

 means of the contained Corals. 



The rest of Dr. Vaughan's Collection of Carboniferous 

 Corals has been registered, and other newly-acquired specimens 

 have been registered and incorporated, chief among which are 

 specimens from the Ordovician of Westmoreland (F. A. Bather 

 Coll.), Carboniferous of Ireland (Mrs. A. S. Woodward Coll.), 

 Cretaceous of Kent (Dibley, Gamble Colls.), Miocene of Burma 

 (Dalton, Macrorie Colls.), and the Tertiary of Victoria (Cudmore 

 Coll.). 



Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 

 573. 



