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or assistance, was nine thousand four hundred and forty- 

 three, as compared with : — 



- 1890 

 1889 



- 1888 



1887 



1886 



1885 



- 1884 

 1883 



- - - - 1882 



Albert Gunther. 



9 034 in the year 



8,360 



8,797 





8,955 





8,372 





8,313 





6,818 





5,229 





9.628 





Department of Geology. 

 I. — Arrangement. 

 A.— Vertebrata. 



Fossil Mammalia (Galleries Nos. 1 and 2). — The " Forsyth- 

 Major " Collection of Mammals, from the Island of Samos, 

 has been registered and arranged for study by Dr. Forsyth- 

 Major. 



The limb-bones of the Pleistocene Equidw are being 

 mounted on stands and arranged in Wall-case No. 10, 

 Gallery No. 1. 



A carapace of Glyptodon asper (Burmeister) recently 

 acquired by purchase, from the Alluvial Deposits of the 

 Argentine Republic, Buenos Ayres, has been carefully re- 

 constructed upon a light iron framework, to which the 

 restored tail-sheath of the same animal, together with 

 coloured casts of the fore and hind limbs, the skull and 

 cervical vertebrse of another individual, obtained from the 

 Musee d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, have been articulated, and 

 the whole mounted upon a stand and placed m a glass-case in 

 Gallery No. 2 (South-east Pavilion). 



Mammalia registered, 821. 



Fossil Birds (Gallery No. 2). — A very well-preserved skele- 

 ton of Pachyornis elephantopus (partially restored) has been 

 articulated and mounted in a glass-case in the South-east 

 Pavilion. The entire collection of Dinornithidce , occupying 

 Wall-case No. 23 and Table-case No. 12, has been re- 

 arranged and re-labelled in accordance with the recently- 

 published Catalogue of Fossil Bird-remains. The collection 

 of small bones of European Fossil Birds have been arranged 

 in drawers preparatory to labelling in accordance with Mr. 

 Lydekker's Catalogue. 



Aves registered, 163, 



0.108. H Fossil 



