100 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



(10.) A second new case has been added to the British 

 Gallery for the exhibition of suitable specimens of Echino- 

 derms. 



Coloured drawings illustrating the general appearance when 

 living, of some of the commonest British Holothurians have 

 been placed on the walls of this Gallery. 



A magnificent example of the Black Coral of the Mediter- 

 ranean {Gerardia savalia) has been mounted in a separate 

 case in the Coral Gallery ; also a very fine specimen of the 

 elegant AvachnoiJathes ericoides, and the remarkable new 

 Antipathid (AntijKithes rohillardi). A selection of Penna- 

 tulids in spirits is now, for the first time, placed on exhibition. 



(11.) Numerous microscopic preparations of Sponges, 

 Polyzoa, and Protozoa have been secured in slide-boxes. 



lY .—Duplicates. 



No duplicates were distributed among museums : but a few 

 Mammals and Insects, and 1,000 Birds were utilized in ex- 

 changes. Of the " Challenger " duplicates, 100 fishes, 240 

 Mollusks, 250 Crustaceans, 4G Echinoderms, and 24 Annelids 

 were sent in exchange for similar sets to the Indian Museum, 

 Calcutta, the Paris Museum, and the United States National 

 Museum. 



V. — Departmental Library. 



The Departmental Library has acquired by purchase, pre- 

 sentation, or exchange, 85 works, in 128 volumes, besides 

 468 new numbers of periodicals and works in progress ; of 

 the latter, 43 volumes have been completed within the year. 

 The total number of works now in the Library is 9,751, 

 represented by 15,568 volumes. 



All the additions during the yeai- have been entered in 

 the Purchase Book, catalogued, press-marked, stamped, and 

 placed ; 131 volumes have been bound. 



VI. — Catalogues. 



The following Catalogues have been issued during the year 

 1890 :— 



1. Catalogue of Birds, vol. XIII. , Sturniformes (8vo. 701 pp., 

 14 plates, and numerous woodcuts), by R. B. Sharpe. 



2. Catalogue of Birds, vol. XV., Tracheophonse, (8vo. 372 pp., 

 20 plates, and numerous woodcuts), by P. L. Sclater. 



3. Catalogue of Birds, vol. XVIIL, Pici, (Svo. 398 pp., 15 

 plates, and numerous woodcuts), by E. Hargitt. 



In addition to the above works, vols. XVI. and XIX. of the 

 " Catalogue of Birds," and part VIIL of " Illustrations of 

 Types of Lepidoptera Heterocera," are in the press, and the 



manuscripts 



