128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



The Catalogue of Fossil Fishes (Part IV.) is now in. 

 preparation. 



Part III. of the CataJogue of the Fossil Cephalopoda has 

 been completed in MS., and illustrations are now being pre- 

 pared for the same. 



The MS. list of the types and figured specimens of Fossil 

 Cephalopoda contained in the collection has now been com- 

 pleted. They number 921. 



The " Catalogue of the Tertiary Mollusca in the British 

 Museum : Part I. Australasia," by G. F. Harris, f.g.s., is pro- 

 gressing towards completion ; 224 pp. have been set up in 

 type, and eight sheets passed for press ; most of the plates: 

 are also executed. It is hoped that Part I. will be ready in 

 March, 1897. 



Mr. A. C. Seward is preparing MS. for Part III. of the 

 Fossil Secondary Plants (Jurassic), but none of the matter is; 

 at present in the pi'inter's hands. 



A Guide to the Invertebrata, to the Fossil Plants, and His- 

 torical Collections, is prepared and printed, and will be very 

 shortly published. 



\W . — Separate Papers and Memoirs hearing ujyon the 

 Collection: published in 189G. 



The following Papers and Memoirs have been prepared by 

 members of the staff and by other scientific workers in the 

 Department, and relate to specimens forming part of the 

 Geological Collection, which have been described and figured 

 in various works during the past year: — • 



By C. W. Andrews, B.A., B.sc, f.g.s. 



1. On a skull of Orycteropus Gaudryi (Forsyth-Major) 

 from Samos. (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1896, p. 296.) 



2. On the pelvis of Gryptoclidus oxoniensis (Phillips). 

 (Geol. Mag., 1896, p. 145.) 



3. Note on the skeleton of Aptornis defossor (from New 

 Zealand). (Geol. Mag., 1896, p. 241, pi. x.) 



4. On the skeleton of Diaphorapteryx Hawkinsii (Forbes), 

 a large extinct rail from the Chatham Islands. (Geol. Mag.,, 

 1896, p. 337, pi. xii.) 



5. On the structure of the Plesiosaurian skull. [1896.] 

 (Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. 52, p. 246, pi. ix.) 



6. On the skull, sternum, and shoulder-girdle of ^p)yornis. 

 ("Ibis," 1896, p. 376.) 



By Arthur Smith Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.z.s. 



7. On some remains of the Pycnodont Fish, Mesturus, from 

 the Oxford Clay of Peterborough. (Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 [6], vol. xvii., pp. 1-15, pis. i.-iii., 1896.) 



8. On 



