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recently acquired specimens, chiefly from the Upper Cretaceous 

 of Gosau and France and the Tertiarj'- of France, and Tertiary 

 specimens presented by the Geological Survey of Egypt, have 

 been registered and incorporated. A beginning has been made 

 of a revision of the Museum Collection of Carboniferous Corals, 

 in connection with which many thin sections have been 

 prepared. 



Number of specimens of Anthozoa and Hydrozoa registered, 

 1,617. 



Porifera (Gallery 10). — Newly acquired specimens, chiefly 

 from the Cretaceous of England and Egypt, have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Porifera registered, 37. 



Protozoa (Gallery 10). — Foraminifera and Foraminiferal lime- 

 stones from the Chalk of England (Gamble coll.), the Cretaceous 

 of France, the Oligocene of France, the Tertiary of Egypt 

 (Geological Survey of Egypt), the Tertiary of Tripoli (J. W. 

 Gregory coll.), the Tertiary of Tunis (Spath coll.), and of 

 Christmas Island (C. W. Andrews coll.), have been registered 

 and incorporated. 



Number of specimens of Protozoa registered, 674, 



Planted (Gallery 10). — The collection of Silurian and 

 Devonian plants has been examined, re-arranged, and re-labelled ; 

 and a selection has been mounted for exhibition in wall-case 18 

 and table-case 82. 



Progress has also been made with the revision of the 

 unexhibited Lower Carboniferous plants. 



Some Rhsetic plants from Sweden, collected and presented 

 by H.R.H. the Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, have been mounted 

 for exhibition in table-case 24. 



In connection with the Catalogue, progress has been made 

 with the revision of the Cretaceous plants, and numerous 

 microscope-sections of Cretaceous woods have been prepared. 



Number of specimens of Plantse registered, 398. 



Tracks and Rock-Specimens (Gallery 11). — Several small 

 additions have been made to the exhibited collection in 

 wall-cases 6, 7. 



Number of specimens registered, 19. 



Old Collections (Gallery 11 and Workroom). — The greater 

 part of the Pennant collection has been arranged in drawers 

 in table-case 16, and a selection of the more important specimens 

 has been mounted for exhibition in the same table-case. 



Much progress has been made in cleaning and arranging 

 the Geological Society's collection in the cabinets in the 

 Workroom. 



