146 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



IX. — Lectures and Demonstrations. 



Dr. H. Woodward, assisted by Mr. G. C. Crick, Mr. 

 H. B. Newton, etc., gave a Demonstration in Galleries Nos. 7 

 and 8, on the Mollusca, to 68 members of the Geologists, 

 Association under the Presidency of E. T. Newton, Esq., F.E.S., 

 on March 20th. 



The Chelsea and Fulham Cooperative Society, 15 in 

 number, received a demonstration from Dr. Woodward on 

 May 1st. 



Thirty-seven members of the London Society for the 

 Extension of University Teaching (secretary, Mr. F. Tremain) 

 visited the Museum on May 8th, and attended a Demonstra- 

 tion in the Geological Department by Dr. H. Woodward. 



On June 19th the Geological Section of the London Society 

 for the Extension of University Teaching, Upper Holloway, 

 visited the Museum and received a Demonstration from Mr. 

 Arthur Smith Woodward. 



Professor Hans Gadow, F.R.S., and a class of advanced 

 students from Cambridge were received by Dr. Woodward 

 and given a Demonstration in the Mammalian Gallery, 



Ten students from the Borough Polytechnic (S.E.) were 

 received by Mr. Arthur Smith Woodward, on Sunday, 

 November 14th, and given a demonstration in the Museum. 



X. — Research Students. 



During the past year the resources of the Department have 

 been largely utilised by various persons engaged in particular 

 objects of research; amongst whom may be specially named : 

 — Dr. R. H. Traquair, f.r.s.. Researches on Fossil Fishes ; 

 Mr. H. W. Burrows, Foraminifera and Tertiary Mollusca ; 

 Prof. T. Rupert Jones, f.r s.. Fossil Entomostraca and 

 Phyllopoda ; Miss J. Donald, Palaeozoic Gasteropoda ; Dr. 

 Dukinfield H. Scott, f.r.s., Palseobotany and Histology ; 

 Mr. A. Maslem, Paleobotany and Histology ; Mr. A. C. Seward, 

 M.A., Oolitic Plants (Williamson collection) ; Mr. Clement 

 Reicl, F.G.S., Post-pliocene Plant-remains ; Prof. Molengraaf, 

 Borneo Fossils ; F. L. Kitchin, B.A., f.g.s., Indian Brachiopoda 

 and Mollusca; G. F. Harris, f.g.s., Tertiary Mollusca; Dr. G. 

 J. Hinde, f r.s.. Sponges and Radiolaria ; Mr. Kloos, Celebes 

 Fossils ; Mr. S. F. Harmer, m.a., S. American Edentata ; 

 Rev. G F. Whidborne, M.A., f.g.s., Devonian Fossils. 



Students and Readers. 

 The number of visits from Students and Readers who 

 have consulted the collections and the Geological Library 

 for the purpose of carrying on scientific work during the 

 past year, and who have received assistance from members of 

 the staff, was 4,889. 



Henry Woodward. 

 Department of Geology, 

 5 February 1897. 



