118 ACCOUNTS, ETC. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



this Gallery, devoted to Fossil Footprints, have been re- 

 painted, the specimens re-labelled, and some additional foot 

 ^vinta oilguanodon have been framed and added to Case No. 8. 

 Specimens registered, 25. 



Geological DepartmeQit Library (Gallery No. 9.) 



The various additions made to the Library and Collection 

 of Maps, during the past year, have been duly stamped and 

 catalogued, and the books press-marked and placed. 

 1,250 titles, on slips, have been copied ; 

 200 titles, on slips, have been revised ; and 

 220 new slips have been prepared. 

 The additions made to the Library in 1891 are as follows : — 

 By Donation : 



Maps - - - - - 141 

 Books - - - - - 44 

 Pamphlets - - - - 376 

 Continuations - _ - 182 



743 



By Purchase : 



Maps ----- 52 

 Books - - - - - 35 

 Pamphlet - - - - 1 



Continuations (volumes) - 41 

 ,, (parts of vols.) Ill 



240 



Total - - - 983 



Prei^aration of Catalogues. 



Part II. of Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward's " Catalogue of 

 Fossil Fishes," containing the Elasmobranchii (Acanthodii), 

 Holocephali, Ichthyodorulites, Ostracodermi, Dipnoi and 

 Teleostomi (8vo. pp. xliv. and 568, illustrated by 16 plates 

 and 58 woodcuts), was published in January 1891. 



Mr. A. S. Woodward has been occupied, during the past year, 

 in preparing materials for Part III. of the same Catalogue. 

 Part II. of Mr. Arthur H. Foord's Catalogue of the Fossil 

 Cephalopoda, containing the remainder of the sub-order Nau- 

 tiloidea, of the families Lituitidse, Trochoceratidse, and Nauti- 

 lida3, was published in February 1891 f8vo. pp. xxviii. and 

 408, with 86 woodcuts). 



Mr. Foord (assisted by Mr. G. C. Crick) is at present engaged 

 upon the preparation of Part III. of the same Catalogue. 



Mr. Kichard Lydekker (in April 1891) completed for pub- 

 lication a " Catalogue of the Fossil Birds," in the British 

 Museum (N. H.) (8vo. pp. xxviii. and 368, with 75 woodcuts) 



In 



