178 accounts, etc., of the british museum. 



Depaktment of Geology. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mamrtialia (Galleries 1 aud 2). — -The human skulls and 

 plaster casts in table-case 1 have been remounted and re- 

 arranged to admit plaster casts of the Piltdown skull ; and 

 the whole of the Piltdown collection has been transferred to 

 this case. 



The exhibited Palaeolithic flint implements have been re- 

 arranged and re-labelled according to the French classification 

 in table-case 1a and in a special upright case. 



Pier-case 9, containing the early Perissodactyla, has been 

 cleaned and re-arranged. All the smaller specimens have been 

 mounted on tablets with newly printed labels. 



Pier-case 16, containing Bovines, Antelopes, and Goats, 

 has been cleaned and re-arranged to admit a newly mounted 

 skeleton of Myotragus halearicus. 



The remains of early Artiodactyla in the drawers of table- 

 case 8 have been re-arranged and labelled. 



A plaster cast of the skeleton of Arsinoitherium zitteli, 

 from the Upper Eocene of Egypt, partly restored, has been 

 mounted on a special stand in the middle of the gallery. 



Pier-case 33, containing Proboscidea, has been cleaned and 

 re-an-anged to admit a newly mounted skull of Elephas 

 ineridionalis from the Forest Bed of Bacton, and other new 

 specimens, all provided with printed labels. 



A new selection of remains of Rodentia has been made for 

 exhibition in table-case IG, and about half of them have 

 already been mounted on tablets with printed labels. The 

 labelling and arrangement of unexhibited specimens in the 

 drawers of tlie same table-case have been completed. 



A collection of remains of Amhlyrhiza from a cave-breccia 

 in Anguilla, West Indies, has been prepared for study and 

 exhibition. 



The Busk collection of Pleistocene and Pliocene Mammalia, 

 and the Oswald collection of British East African Tertiary 

 Mammalia, have been registered, labelled, and incorporated. 



A revision of the unexhibited Mammalian remains in the 

 basement store-rooms has been begun. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 463. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — A new cabinet of drawers has been 

 placed under table -case 13 a, and the unexhibited specimens 

 belonging to that case have been re-arranged. 



Number of specimens of Aves registered, 55. 



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

 mounted skeleton of Ophthalmosaurus has been temporarily 

 placed in the large middle case at the S.E. end of Gallery 4. 



