124 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



A large number of these specimens have been framed for 

 their better preservation, and the work is still in progress. 



The Cretaceous physostomous fishes, and some of those 

 from the Eocene, have been examined in detail during the 

 preparation of the Catalogue, and the revision has involved 

 a partial re-arrangement of Wall-cases XV. and XVI., and 

 Table-cases 49-51, which will be completed as soon as the part 

 of the Catalogue relating to them is in type. 



All acquisitions during the year have been registered and 

 incorporated in the collection. 



The total number of fossil Fishes registered was 1,269. 



B. — Invertebrata. 



Mollusca. — Gej)halo'i>oda (Gallery 7.) — A drawing of 

 PalceoGtopus Newholdi has been placed in Wall-case 1, and 

 an example of Coccoteuthis hastiformis has been mounted on 

 a tablet, with an illustrative figure, and added to the same 

 case. 



Some examples of recent Cephalopoda have been placed in 

 Wall-case No. 1a, to illustrate the fossil forms. 



In Wall-case 14, twelve Oolitic Belemnites have been 

 mounted and exhibited, and nine specimens of Acantho- 

 teuthis and 100 Belemnites have been mounted and labelled 

 in Table-case 58. 



Two Cretaceous Nautili have been mounted and labelled, 

 and added to Wall-case 2, and one Nautilus to Table-case 59. 



Four Baculites, six Scaphites, and four Cretaceous Aptychi 

 have been labelled and mounted in Table-cases 60-62. 



In Table-case 63 three Cretaceous Ammonites, and three 

 Aptychi, have been mounted on tablets and incorporated, and 

 eleven Devonian Goniatites in Table-case 70. 



The labelling of the specimens in the drawers of Gallery 7 

 has been completed. 



The acquisitions for the year, after being registered and 

 labelled, have been incorporated in the collection. 



The number of Cephalopoda registered in 1896 was 1,051. 



Mollusca. — Gasteropoda, Lamellihranchiata,, etc. (Gallery 

 8.)— Some additions have been made to the British Post- 

 Pliocene (non-marine) Mollusca from the Lea Valley, pre- 

 sented by Dr. F. Corner, and by a small series of specimens 

 from the Happaway Cave, Torquay, presented by Mrs. Pen- 

 gelly. See Table-case 104a. 



Rather more than 1,100 specimens of Mollusca from the 

 Sufi'olk Crag (part of the Robert Bell Collection) have been 

 carefully determined and labelled, and placed in glass-topped 

 boxes in Table-case 103a, in the centre of Gallery 8. 



Upwards of 2,600 Foreign Tertiary Gasteropoda, from the 

 Italian Miocene and Pliocene formations, and from the Eocene, 

 Miocene and Post-Pliocene deposits of Australia, New Zealand, 



&c., 



