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&;c., have been determined, and the major part mounted upon 

 tablets and arranged in Wall-cases 1 and 2. 



The revision of the British Lower Tertiary Pleurotomce 

 has been commenced. 



A very large number of fossil Mollusca from various for- 

 mations (together with Brachiopoda, Corals, &c.) have been 

 transferred from the Zoological Department. These have 

 been carefully examined and assorted, and, as far as desirable 

 incorporated in their proper places in the collection ; whilst 

 the remainder have been placed with the duplicates for 

 distribution. 



Brachiopoda. — A collection of 1,82.5 specimens of fossil 

 Brachiopods, representing some 500 species, from various 

 formations and localities, transferred from the Zoological 

 Department, have been named and registered. (Several of 

 these proved to be "types" which had been figured and 

 described by Sowerby and Phillips). 



One hundred and sixty-one specimens have been added 

 from the " Pengelly Collection," of which twenty -five proved 

 to be " type-specimens " figured by Davidson, and have been 

 placed with the Davidson Collection of Brachiopoda. A 

 small collection obtained by purchase from the Rrv. P. B. 

 Brodie contained three of Davidson's type specimens. These 

 have all been carefully marked and labelled. Other collections 

 registered and incorporated are — A collection of Brachiopoda 

 from the Permian of Sunderland ; a small collection from the 

 middle Froductus Limestone of the Salt Range, India, 

 presented by F. G. Brook-Fox, Esq. ; a large collection of 

 Palaeozoic Brachiopoda from North America. 



Twenty additional genera have been added to the series 

 exhibited in Wall-cases 10 and 11, as well as examples from 

 the Mesozoic and Cainozoic periods not heretofore represented 

 in the cases. 



The Davidson Collection of Brachiopoda is still under 

 arrangement. During the past year the whole of the recent 

 examples have been mounted in glass-topped boxes labelled 

 and registered, and are now arranged in the Table-cases and 

 drawers beneath them with the fossil forms (Table-cases 

 13-15, Gallery 11). 



Bryozoa (Gallery 8). The whole exhibition series of 

 Jurassic Bryozoa have been mounted with enlarged drawings 

 in glass-topped boxes in Table-case 86a in the centre of the 

 Gallery ; also a selection of the Cretaceous specimens. 



The " Shrubsole Collection " of Palaeozoic Bryozoa, acquired 

 during the past year, has been carefully examined, and the 

 series selected to be retained has been registered, mounted 

 and exhibited in Table-case 86b in the centre of the Gallery. 

 The collection includes the types described by Mr. Shrubsole. 

 Specimens registered during the past year, 1257. 



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