96 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



4. Mollusca. — One first-class assistant and one attendant. 



5. Crustacea, Myriopoda, and Arachnida. — One second- 

 class assistant. 



6. Coleoptera. — One assistant of the first and one of the 

 second class. 



7. Lepidoptera. — These are in charge of the assistant 

 keeper (whose time, however, is occasionally much occupied 

 by administrative assistance required by the keeper) and a 

 second-class assistant. Extra assistance in arranging is pro- 

 vided by the temporary employment of a Lepidopterist. 



8. Diptera. — One second-class assistant. 



9. Hymenoptera, Neuroptera, Trichoptera, Orthoptera, 

 and Rhynchota. — One second-class assistant. 



The assistants engaged in the Insect-room have the joint 

 services of three boy-attendants at their disposal. 



10. Vermes, Echinodermata, and (provisionally) the 

 Anthozoa. — One first-class assistant. 



11. Polyzoa, Sponges, Hydrozoa, and Protozoa. — One 

 second-class assistant ; these two last assistants having 

 jointly the services of an attendant. 



12. The Departmental Library is in charge of the Keeper, 

 the clerical duties being performed by an attendant. 



Special work of a miscellaneous nature, such as mounting 

 specimens for exhibition, printing and writing labels, copying, 

 attending to artists and students in the Galleries, &c., is per- 

 formed by the remaining attendants, who also act as sub- 

 stitutes in cases of illness, or help wherever a great pressure 

 of work calls for temporary assistance. 



The progress that has been made in the year 1890, in the 

 arrangement and description of the several collections, is as 

 follows : — 



I. — A rrangement. 



(1.) The additions to the collection of Mammalia have been 

 entered in the catalogues as soon as they were examined and 

 named ; however, they were comparatively few in number, 

 leaving ample time for the progress of the systematic arrange- 

 ment of the general collection. The order Ungulata, or 

 Hoofed Mammals, was taken in hand : one division {Peris- 

 sodactyla) being completed, and the other (Artiodactyla) 

 being far advanced. A manuscript list of all the specimens 

 of these groups, as far as their examination has gone, has 

 been prepared at the same time. 



(2.) Great eff*orts have been made to cope with the accumula- 

 tion of specimens in the study collection of Bird-skins. The 

 liberal grants made by Her Majesty's Treasury allowed of the 



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