1^0 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



No. 13. Some bones of Harpagornis Moorei, presented by 

 H. 0. Forbes, Esq., are exhibited in Table-case No. 12a. A 

 collection of bones of the Dodo, presented by Sir Charles 

 Cameron Lees, K.C.M.G., has been registered, and some of the 

 specimens exhibited. 



Wall-case XXV. has been entirely re-arranged in order to 

 provide exhibition-space for numerous bones referred to 

 several species of jEpyornis, recentl}'- obtained from Mada- 

 gascar ; these have been mounted, and printed labels have 

 been prepared for each specimen. 



Wall-cases XXIII. and XXIV. have been partly re-arranged, 

 as also has Table-case No. 12. 



A number of bones of Enaliornis Barretti has been obtained 

 from T. Jesson, Esq., r.G.S., and a selected series has been 

 mounted and labelled for exhibition in Table-case No. 13. 



The skeleton of " the Great Auk " has been re-mounted and 

 is exhibited in a special glazed case, together with a coloured 

 reproduction of its egg. A photograph of the Archceopteryx 

 in the Berlin Museum has been framed and glazed and fixed 

 on the East wall of this Gallery. 



The total number of Avian remains registered is 370. 



Reptilia (Gallery No. 4). — The arrangement of Wall-cases 

 I. and II., has been completed, and in the latter three nearly 

 entire mounted skeletons of Crocodilia from the Oxford Clay, 

 Peterborough, are exhibited. 



Wall-case VII. has been re-painted, and is under arrange- 

 ment. Most of the specimens have been re-mounted and a 

 new diagram of a Theropodous Dinosaur has been placed in 

 the case. 



A coloured reproduction of the skull of Iguanoclon Bernis- 

 sartensis, received in exchange from the Brussels Museum, 

 has been mounted and labelled, and is exhibited in a separate 

 glazed case in the centre of the Gallery. 



Two specimens of skulls and vertebral columns of 

 Pariasaurus have been mounted in a glass case, near that 

 containing the entire skeleton of the same animal. 



The specimens in Table-cases Nos. 10 and 11, and a part of 

 those in Nos. 12 and 19, have been re-tableted, and printed 

 labels have been prepared for the same in accordance with 

 the published Catalogue. 



The unexhibited series of Reptilian specimens have been 

 registered, and are arranged in the several drawers beneath 

 the Table-cases. 



A number of reptilian remains from Brazil, presented by 

 Joseph Mawson, Esq., F.G.S., have been registered, and selected 

 specimens mounted and labelled for exhibition. 



The Ichthyosauria and a part of the Plesiosauria from the 



Oxford 



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