98 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Echinoderma. — The accessions to this class have been 

 determined, and entered in the manuscript catalogue. 



Anthozoa. — During the preparation of a third volume of 

 the catalogue of Madreporaria by Mr. H. M. Bernard, all the 

 specimens referred to, have been critically studied and 

 determined. 



An entirely new method of mounting corals for exhibition 

 (in separate trays lined Avith velvet), has been applied to two 

 cases, for which explanatory labels have been prepared. 

 Another fine Madrepora has been set out, and to the skeleton 

 of Paragorgia arhorea there has been added a fine mass 

 showing the polyps in situ. 



Bryozoa, Hydrozoa, and Porifera. — The exhibited collec- 

 tion of Bryozoa has been remounted and relabelled. A 

 manuscript list of the Calcareous Sponges in the collection 

 has been prepared, and lists of the genera of Medusce, 

 Siphonoiohora, Jlydrocorallince, Ctenophora, Hydro id a, 

 Bryozoa, Hexactinellida and Tetractinellida have also been 

 compiled. 



II. — Duplicates. 



Duplicates have been presented to the Imperial Institute, 

 the University College Museum, Dundee, and the Museums 

 of Oxford, Exeter, Ipswich, Warrington, and Gibraltar, as 

 follows :— 355 Birds, 178 Reptiles, 2 Batrachians, 1 Fish, 

 253 Insects and a number of specimens of lacs, silks, etc. ; 

 while exchanges have been effected with the following 

 institutions and individuals: — The Australian Museum, the 

 Museums of Lyons, Leyden, Budapest, Christiania, Bergen, 

 Travancore, Buenos Ayres, La Plata, the Royal College of 

 Surgeons, and Eton College, the Honourable Walter Roths- 

 child, Captain Nurse, Professor Kochler, and Messrs. Fulton, 

 AVerner, Dumergue, Henkel, and Beutenmiiller. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Forty-seven separate works and 79-i new numbers of 

 periodicals and parts of works in progress, obtained by presen- 

 tation, exchange and purchase, have been added to the Depart- 

 mental Library, and 347 volumes have been bound. The 

 Library now contains 10,083 separate works, represented by 

 16,585 volumes. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues published by the Trustees 

 mentioned in the earlier part of the Return, the follovving are 

 the most important reports or descriptive papers which have 

 been prepared by the staff in connection with the various 



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