128 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



mounted and arranged in Table-case No. 70. The rest of the 

 Goniatites in the Collection have been named, labelled, and 

 arranged in the drawers beneath the Table-cases. 



A large specimen of Ammonites [Haploceras] lepto2')h.yllus, 

 from the chalk of Rottingdean, near Brighton, has been 

 mounted in a specially-prepared glazed case, between 

 Wall-cases 3 and 4 ; it is the largest Ammonite in the 

 collection. 



A small Wall-case (No. 13a), has been fitted up between 

 Wall-cases 13 and 14, to contain recent illustrations in the 

 upper part. In the lower part is placed a specimen of Nautilus 

 ornatus, 2 feet in diameter, from the Inferior Oolite of Sher- 

 borne, Dorset (this is the largest example oi Nautilus known ; 

 it weighs 182 lbs.). 



In the lower part of the small Wall-case (No. 1b) opposite 

 have been placed two magnificent examples of LeptoteuthiS 

 gigas, from the Lithographic stone of Solenhofen, Bavaria. 



Various illustrations have been added to the Wall-cases 

 during the past year. 



Cephalopoda registered during the past year, 2,660 

 specimens. 



Mollusca. — Gasteropoda, Lamellihranchiata, etc. (Gallery 

 No. 8). — The collections of Foreign Tertiary Mollusca are 

 still being worked out. Nearly 2,000 specimens have been 

 mounted; named, and arranged in the Wall-cases ; chiefly 

 Australian and Italian. Four hundred and twenty-two have 

 been named, labelled, and arranged in drawers beneath the 

 Table-cases. 



A fine series of British Pliocene Gasteropodous Mollusca 

 from the Suff'olk Crag (part of the Robert Bell Collection) 

 are in process of arrangement on the west side of upright 

 glazed-case (No. 103a), in the centre of the Gallery. 



About 1,000 specimens have been added to this series during 

 the past year. 



The chief Molluscan collections registered and incorporated 

 during the past year have been the following : — 



Mr. S. J. Hawkins, Collection of Chalk Mollusca from 

 Burham, Kent. 



Mr. Townshend M. Hall's Collection of Devonian fossils 

 from Barnstaple, North Devon, etc. 



The Michalet Collection of Cretaceous Mollusca from 

 Algeria, and the T. J. Slatter Collection of Jurassic fossils 

 from Worcester, Gloucester, and Somerset. 



Mollusca registered in 1897, 6,334. 



Brachiop)oda. — The Foreign Brachiopoda have been entirely 

 re-arranged in accordance with the American edition of von 

 Zittel's " Grundziige der Palseontologie." The exhibited series 

 contains 1,640 specimens and 37 drawings, 141 genera only out 

 of 309 known forms are represented in the cases, the remaining 

 168 have yet to be selected or procured. 



