122 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



son" Type Collections (Gallery No. 11), 1,173 labels have been 

 composed, and 9,974 copies printed off. 



For the Echinoidea and Crinoidea, 179 labels have been 

 composed, and 1,045 copies printed off. 



For the Stratigraphical cases, 368 labels have been com- 

 posed, and 2,425 copies printed off. 



For the Index Museum, 196 labels have been composed, and 

 2,737 copies printed off. 



Altogether, 2,896 labels have been composed, and 23,022 

 copies printed off. 



In addition to the above work, a very large number of 

 Class-labels, Orders, Families, &;c., have been prepared with 

 stencil-plates, mounted, finished off, and fixed in the cases. 



Acquisitions. 1. By Donation. A. — Vertebrata. 



1. Mammalia. — Three pieces of bone-breccia from Wel- 

 lington Caves, New South Wales ; presented by W. S. Day, 

 Esq. 



A molar of Elephas primigenius from peat below the 

 Brickearth, Peckham, Surrey ; presented by W. V. Double- 

 day, Esq. 



Oalvarium and horn-cores of Saiga tartarica from the 

 Thames Valley Gravel, Twickenham ; presented by J. R. 

 Leeson, Esq., M.D., F.G.S. 



Frontlet and antlers of Cervus elaphus, with cervical ver- 

 tebra ; presented by F. S. Goodwin, Esq. 



Astragalus of Elephas meridionalis from the Forest Bed, 

 Cromer; presented by J. Croft, Esq. 



A canine tooth of Trichechus from the Red Crag, Suffolk ; 

 presented by J. Alstone, Esq. 



A series of bones from excavations in the Thames Valley 

 Gravels and Brickearth in Buckingham Palace-road, S.W., 

 comprising Bison priscus, bovine limb-bones and vertebrae, 

 and portions of antlers of Rangifer taranclus ; presented by 

 his Grace the Duke of Westminster, k.g., &c. &c. 



2. Reptilia. — Three fragments of humerus and scapular 

 arch of Eosphargis gigas from the London Clay of Sheppey; 

 presented by W. H. Shrubsole, Esq., f.g.s. 



A minute marginal plate of an Etnydian Chelonian from 

 the Lower Greensand, Plaxtol ; presented by Professor H. G. 

 Seeley, f.r.s. 



A humerus of Pterodactyle, and nine other Reptilia, from 

 the Chalk, Blue Bell Hill, Burham, Kent ; presented by S. 

 J. Hawkins, Esq., F.G.S. 



The original specimen of Oolithes Bathonicce from the 

 Great Oolite, Hare Bush Quarry, near Cirencester (figured 

 and described by the late Professor Buckman, Quart. Jour. 

 Geol. Soc, 1860, Vol. xvi., p. 108 (woodcut)) ; presented by the 

 Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie, f.r.s., f.g.s., &;c. &c. 



3. Pisces. 



