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water-colour sketches have been added to give an idea of the 

 appearance of these animals during life. The collection of 

 Anthozoa in spirit has been gone through, and the spirit 

 renewed where necessary, and some progress has been made 

 with the re-arrangement of the Alcyonaria. 



Hydrozoa, Porifera. Protozoa. — The work done during 

 the year in connection with these classes has consisted chiefly 

 in the arrangement of the collections exhibited both in the 

 British Room and the Coral Gallery, much time having been 

 devoted to the Protozoa case. 



A manuscript list of Sponges of the group Calcarea 

 Heterocoela has also been prepared. ;.;--ir:r2Sf-r? 



II. — Duplicates and Exchanges. 



' Duplicate mammals, mostly old stuiFed specimens, have 

 been presented to The Ladies' College, Cheltenham, and the 

 following specimens to the Birkbeck Institution : — 3 Birds, 

 6 Fishes, 4 Molluscs, 1 Echinoderm, 10 Corals and 100 

 Arthropods. Exchanges have been effected with the following 

 institutions and individuals : — The Zoological Museum, 

 Hamburg, The Natural History Museum, Vienna, The 

 Naturwissenschaftliche Verein, Magdeburg, The St. Peters- 

 burg Museum, The Leyden Museum, The Royal Siamese 

 Museum, The Provincial Museum, La Plata, The Honourable 

 Walter Rothschild, Professor Koehler, Mr. J. Ffolliott Darling, 

 Dr. F. Ohaus, Dr. Arwidsson and Mr. Martin Jacoby. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



Fifty-seven separate works in sixty volumes and eight 

 Hundred and fifty-eight new numbers of periodicals, and parts 

 of works in progress, obtained by purchase, presentation, and 

 exchange have been added to the Departmental Library. One 

 hundred and sixty-two volumes have been bound. The 

 Library now contains 10,140 separate works, represented by 

 16,750 volumes. 



IV. — Publications. 



In addition to the Catalogues published by the Trustees 

 already referred to, the following reports and descriptive 

 papers have been prepared in connection with various parts 

 of the collection, especially recent acquisitions, and have 

 been published in scientific journals : — 



