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10. Additions to the collections of Echinoderms and Worms 

 have been named and incorporated ; a manuscript list of 

 the Asteroidea has been commenced, and the lists of other 

 Echinoderms have been kept up to date. The revision of British 

 Echinoderms has been completed, and the dried specimens 

 arranged in accordance with the " Catalogue." 



The final examination of the Madreporaria has been con- 

 tinued, and the 400 specimens acquired during the year have 

 been determined and described. 



11. The arrangement of the Polyzoa, together with a 

 manuscript list of the specimens in the collection have been 

 almost completed. 



The Parker collection of Foraminifera is in progress of a 

 thorough examination, in order to ascertain and preserve the 

 history of each of the slides. This important work has been 

 undertaken by Professor Rupert Jones, F.R.S., who, in con- 

 junction with the late Professor W. K. Parker, had made this 

 collection his special study. 



II. — Registration. 



The specimens obtained during the year, whether by pur- 

 chase or presentation, have been entered in the manuscript 

 registers of accessions, and the register-numbers attached to 

 them. For future reference the date and mode of acquisi- 

 tion, the exact locality where the specimens were obtained, 

 the name of the collector, and any other particulars of interest 

 respecting them, are entered. 



III. — Conservation. 



As in previous years, the usual work of conservation has 

 been continued by dusting and cleaning, in rotation, the 

 exhibited specimens, placing the study - collections of 

 small Mammalia, Bird-skins, Shells, Dried Sponges, Corals, 

 Echinoderms, and Polyzoa in glass-topped boxes, renewing the 

 camphor or naphthaline in the wall-cases, store-cabinets, and 

 some of the insect-drawers, and the spirit of the collections, 

 preserved in alcohol. Of other work coming under this 

 heading the following should be specially mentioned : - 



1. The exhibition-cases in the Osteological Gallery, con- 

 taining the skeletons and skulls of the Ungulates, have been 

 repaired and repainted, and their contents re- arranged with the 

 addition of numerous recent acquisitions. 



The specimens of Mammalia mounted for exhibition were : 

 — A Central Tibetan Bear (Jlrsus pruinosus) ; seven 

 Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus), mounted to form 

 a group ; a pair of European Bisons {Bos bonasus) ; a Mindoro 

 Buffalo (Bos mindorensis) ; a Caucasian Ibex {Gapra cyiln- 



0.108. G 4 dricornis) ; 



