128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF TTtt BltttlSH MUSEUM. 



Fossil Fishes (Gallery No. 6.) — Much re-arrangement has 

 been necessitated uy the acquisition of the Ward and Davis 

 Collections, and by the publication of Part III. of the Cata- 

 logue of Fossil Fishes. 



The Ostracodermi (except those mounted in the Wall-case), 

 have been removed from the series of ganoid fishes and re- 

 arranged in two small Table- cases at the entrance to the Gal- 

 lery. The specimens have been re-labelled, and all important 

 recent acquisitions have been incorporated. 



The Pleuracanth Elasmobranchs have been removed to 

 another small Table-case in the centre of the Gallery, and 

 p.rrangements are being made to transfer the Acanthodians 

 to two similar small Table-cases. 



The Chinneroids are now entirely confined to Table-case 33 

 and the Dipnoi have been i-emoved to Table-case 34. Table- 

 cases 35 and 3G are thus devoted to the Crossopterygian 

 Ganoids, which have hitherto been represented only in the 

 W^ all-cases. 



Several fine examples of Platysvmidcti have been added to 

 Table-cases 39 and 40. 



Table-cases 40 to 48, containing the Mesozoic Ganoids com- 

 prised in Part III. of the published Catalogue, have been 

 entirely re-arranged, also in great part re-tableted and re- 

 labelled with printed labels. The drawers beneath have been 

 correspondingly re-arranged. 



All the catalogued specimens in drawers haye been 

 labelled. 



Wall-cases VIII. and IX. have been re-arranged to accom- 

 modate the Palseoniscida?, Platysomidae, Catopteridse, and 

 Lepidotus. Many specimens have been framed, and a large 

 part of the new fitting is already prepared. 



A fine new specimen, probably the branchiostegal apparatus 

 of Gyrosteus mirahilis, from the Upper Lias of Whitby, has 

 been framed and glazed and fixed on the wall between Wall- 

 cases VI. and VII. 



The portrait of Louis Agassiz has been framed to be uni- 

 form with the other portraits, and labels have been affixed 

 both to this and to those of the late Earl of Enniskillen and 

 the late Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton. 



The original restored drawings of Mesozoic fishes, repro- 

 duced by photography in Part III. of the Catalogue, have 

 been framed for exhibition in the Wall-cases. 



The Ward, Davis, and Brodie Collections, besides numerous 

 other acquisitions, have been registered during the j^ear. 

 The total number of Fossil Fishes registered is 1,481. 



A MS. Index to the register-numbers, mentioned in the Catalogues of 

 Fossil Vertebrata, has been completed, except that referring to the recently 

 issued Part III. of Fossil Fishes, which is now being prepared. 



