198 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Geology. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mamonalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — A special case has been 

 temporarily arranged for the exhibition of plaster casts of the 

 Piltdown skull {Eoanthro'pus dawsoni) and associated remains. 



A special case has been provided for a larger exhibit of the 

 Lower Pliocene bone-bed, with Mammalian remains, from 

 Pikermi, Greece. 



Pier-case 13, containing the remains of Suidse, Camelidse, 

 etc., has been cleaned and re-arranged ; and recent acquisitions 

 of Elotherium have been mounted and added. 



Labels have been prepared for the newly-described skulls of 

 Bos in pier- case 19. 



A fine skull of ElejyJias meridionalis, from the Forest 

 Bed, Bacton, Norfolk, has been prepared for study and 

 exhibition. 



Numerous Tertiary Mammalian remains from Baluchistan 

 have been prepared for study. 



A restored plaster cast of the skeleton of A rsinoitherium 

 has been completed for exhibition. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 62. 



Reptilia and Batrachia (Galleries 3, 4, 5, 11). — A. skeleton 

 of Pteranodon and a skull with anterior vertebrae of Plate- 

 carims, from the Chalk of Kansas, U.S.A., have been prepared 

 and mounted for exhibition in wall-case 1. 



Wall-case 3 has been completely re-fitted and re-arranged 

 to accommodate recently-acquired Crocodilia. The most im- 

 portant specimens added are skeletons of Mystriosaurus from 

 the Upper Lias of Wiirtemberg, Geosaurus from the Litho- 

 graphic Stone of Bavaria, and Goniopholis from the Wealden 

 of the Isle of Wight. 



A plaster cast of the largest known Dinosaurian humerus 

 (Gigantosaurus africanus), from the Lower Cretaceous of 

 German East Africa, has been mounted on a special stand near 

 wall- case 4. The original specimen is in the Royal Natural 

 History Museum, Berlin. 



Progress has been made in the preparation and arrange- 

 ment of the Leeds Collection of Oxfordian Marine Reptiles in 

 wall-cases in the S.E. Basement, and a skeleton of Ophthal- 

 mosaurus is being mounted for exhibition. 



The Triassic and other reptilian foot-prints in wall-cases 

 8 and 10, Gallery 11, have been partly re-arranged to admit a 

 large slab from the Permian near Exeter, which is now 

 exhibited in wall-case 8. 



Numerous Reptilian remains, from the Karoo Formation of 

 South Africa, have been prepared for study. 



