114 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BKITISH MUSEUM. 



Fossil Reptilia (Galleries Nos. 3, 4, and 5). — The fine series of 

 Anomodont and Dicynodont Eeptilia from the Karoo forma- 

 tion (Trias) of Cape Colony, South Africa, has been mounted 

 and arranged on stands in Wall-case No. 9, Gallery No. 4. 



The " Beckles Collection " (containing many valuable and 

 figured Reptilian remains from the Wealden formation, par- 

 ticularly those of Iguanodon, Hyloeosaurus, Megalosaurus, 

 Clielonia, &c.) has been assorted and registered, and the 

 principal specimens developed, mounted, labelled, and placed 

 in the vi^all-cases in Galleries Nos. 4 and 5. 



The cast of Lariosaurus Balsami (Curioni), the original 

 specimen of vv^hich was obtained from the Muschelkalk of 

 Lago di Como, Italy, has been framed and glazed and fixed 

 upon the wall at the west end of Gallery No. 4. The specimens 

 in the two Table-cases of Chelonia, Nos. 20 and 21, Gallery 

 No. 5, have been re-tableted and labelled with printed 

 labels according to the published Catalogue. 



Reptilian-remains registered during the year 1891, 559. 



Fossil Fishes (Gallery No. 6). — ^Wall-case No. 6 in this 

 Gallery, containing the Crossopterygian Ganoids, the Rhizo- 

 dontidse and the Osteolepidse, has been entirely re-arranged, the 

 specimens being now all mounted on stands with printed 

 labels attached to each. A recently-acquired and very large 

 specimen of Coccosteus, from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of 

 Caithness, has been mounted in a glazed frame and fixed 

 upon the west wall of the Fish Gallery, next the case con- 

 taining the other specimens of that genus. 



A very fine example of Portheus molossus, and two other 

 smaller fishes from the Chalk of Kansas, have been mounted 

 and framed and placed in wall-cases. Much progress has 

 been made in examining the Mesozoic Ganoid Fishes, and 

 revising the nomenclature, preparatory to the arrangement of 

 the wall-cases containing them. 



Fossil Fishes registered during the past year, 445. 



Mollusca. — Cephalopoda (Gallery No. 7). 



(a) Nautiloidea. — A specimen of the animal of the recent 

 Nautilus {N. Porapilius), with its shell, has been mounted 

 under glass and placed upon a bracket between Wall-cases 

 Nos. 1 and 2, together with an explanatory drawing. The 

 mandibles of a recent Nautilus, and a drawing of the animal 

 dissected, have been placed in Table-case No. 57. 



Two Tertiary and one Cretaceous Nautili have been 

 mounted and added to Wall-case No 2. 



Eleven Rhyncolites have been mounted on tablets and 

 added to Wall-case No. 13. 



A drawing of Actinoceras, restored, has been added to 

 Table-case No. 57. 



(h) A7n')nonoidea. — Ten Baculites have been mounted on 

 tablets and arranged in Wall-case No. 3. 



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