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ACCOUNTS, ETC., OP THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



VIII. — Visitors and Students. 



The number of visits from persons who have consulted 

 portions of the collection, or who have required attendance 

 or assistance, was nine thousand and thirty-four, as com- 

 pared with : — 



8,360 in the year 



8,797 



8,955 



8,372 



8,313 



0,818 



5,229 



9,628 



7,407 



- 1889 



- 1888 



- 1887 



- 1886 



- 1885 



- 1884 



- 1883 



- 1882 



- 1881 



Albert Gunther 



Department of Geology, 



I. — Arrangement. 

 A.— Vertebrata. 



Fossil MamQnalia (Galleries 1 and 2). — Pier-case 0. This 

 case, which contains the remains of Rhinoceros antiquitatis, 

 Rhinoceros rtiegarhinus, and R. leptorhinus , has been re- 

 arranged, and the numerous limb-bones and other portions of 

 skeletons have all been mounted upon stands, and labelled. 



An extremely perfect skull of Oreodon Culhertsoni, Leidy, 

 from the Miocene of Dakota, United States of North America ; 

 presented by Dr. J. Leidy ; has been mounted upon a stand, 

 and placed in Table-case No. 7. 



A skull of the living Bison americanus, from the Prairies of 

 North America (obtained by exchange from the Smithsonian 

 Institute), has been mounted and placed in Pier-case 16, for 

 comparison with the fossil crania of Bison priscus. 



On the pier, between Pier-cases 12 and 13, is placed the left 

 antler (the right is a restoration) of J. ?ces ma chlis, Ogilhy ; 

 from the Pleistocene of Cleveland, Yorkshire. 



The skulls of British oxen, in Pier-case 19, have been, in 

 part, re-arranged to make room for additional specimens ; and 

 the fine skull oi Buhalusbuffelus, va,r. paloeindicus, Falconer, 

 from the Pleistocene, Narbada valley, India, has been fixed, 

 by iron-supports, to the back of the case in such a position 



that 



