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Table-case 12, has also been partly re-arranged, and some 

 specimens illustrating the structure of the metatarsus and 

 the tibia, together with the feathers of the Moa, have been 

 exhibited in it. 



Some remains of the large extinct rail, DiajDhorapteryx 

 Hawkinsi, are shown in Table-case 12A. 



The number of Avian specimens registered is 5. 



Reptilia (Galleries Nos. 3, 4, and 5.) — The whole of the 

 Table-cases in Gallery No. 4 have been shifted and re- 

 arranged so as to bring them more in harmony w4th the 

 arrangement of the larger objects in the Wall-cases belonging 

 to the same genera. 



The coloured reproduction of the skeleton of Pelagosaitrus 

 typus, which formerly occupied a separate case in the 

 middle of the Gallery, has been placed in Wall-case No. II. 



Some remains of a gigantic Dinosaur, Bothriospondylus 

 Tnadayascariensis, recently described by Lydekker, have 

 been registered and mounted, and are now exhibited in Wall- 

 case III. In the same case some additional vertebrae of 

 Ornithopsis have also been mounted. 



The collection of the late J. W. Hulke, Esq., f.r.s., recently 

 presented by Mrs. Hulke, has been registered and distributed 

 in the collection ; selected specimens being mounted and ex- 

 hibited in Table-case 16, and in Wall-cases III. and V. 



The collection of the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., f.g.s., has also 

 been dealt with, and selected specimens exhibited in various 

 cases. 



A coloured re-production of Iguanodon hernissartensis, 

 from the Brussels Museum, has been mounted in the middle 

 of the Gallery. 



The re-arrangement of Wall-case VII. has been finished, 

 and the whole of the remains of the Mosasauridw are now 

 exhibited in it. 



Wall-case No. VIII. has been completely re-arranged, and 

 in it the remains of Rhynchocephalia, Proterosauria, Meso- 

 sauria, &c., are exhibited. 



A fine skeleton of anew Theriodont Reptile, Cynognathus 

 crater onotiis, recently described bj^ Professor Seeley, is 

 mounted in a separate glazed case in the middle of the Gal- 

 lery. Other new Theriodonts have been placed in Table- 

 case No. 17. 



All the specimens in Table-case 7 have been re-tableted 

 and provided with printed labels. 



Wall-case No. X. is under arrangement for the reception 

 of mounted skeletons of Plesiosaurus, from the Oxford clay 

 (part of the Leeds collection), and other Plesiosaurian re- 

 mains. 



The number of reptilian remains registered during the past 

 year is 8,699. 



0.97. Fossil 



