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and painted, to admit the newly mounted fore and hind 

 limbs of Diprotodon australis. 



Number of specimens of Mammalia registered, 728. 



Aves (Gallery 2). — A few bones of birds from caverns 

 have been labelled and placed in drawers with the Pleistocene 

 remains. 



No new specimens registered. 



Reptilia and Amphibia (Galleries 3, 4, 5). — New cabinets 

 with more commodious drawers have been fixed beneath the 

 table-cases 24 to 29, and the unexhibited catalogued remains 

 of Sauropterygia have been transferred to them. 



The unexhibited catalogued small remains of Dinosauria 

 have been transferred to the drawers of the new cabinets 

 beneath table-cases 15 to 19. 



The plaster cast of the skeleton of Iguanodon mantelli, 

 from the Wealden of Bernissart, Belgium, has been removed 

 and re-mounted in the Gallery of Reptiles, Department of 

 Zoology, for more satisfactory comparison with Diplodocus. 



A skeleton of Pteranodon from the Chalk of Kansas, with 

 the bones separately labelled, has been placed in table-case 4. 



The lower portion of wall-case 17 has been entirely 

 re-arranged and re-fitted to accommodate a specimen of 

 IchthyoHaurus communis from the Lower Lias of Somerset- 

 shire, showing a contained embryo. 



Wall-case 19 has been partially re-arranged to admit a 

 new. specimen of Pleurof^ternum from the Purbeck Beds, 

 Swanage. 



The Microsaurian Labyrinthodonts exhibited in table- 

 case U have been arranged and re-tableted with printed 



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labels. 



Number of specimens of Reptilia and Amphibia 

 tered, 121. 



Pisces (Gallery 6). — The exhibited Ceplialaspidae in table- 

 case B, and some newly acquired specimens of Asterolepis 

 in table-case E, have been tableted and provided with printed 

 labels. 



A new specimen of the pectoral fiiis of Protosphyrcena, 

 from the Chalk of Kansas, has been mounted in a glazed 

 frame on the wall between wall-cases 12 and 13. 



Table-case 26, containing Clupeoid fishes, has been 

 re-arranged to accommodate recent acquisitions, and printed 

 labels have been prepared. 



New printed labels have been prepared for Lepidotus in 

 wall-case 9, for numerous Cretaceous and Tertiary fishes, 

 and for miscellaneous recent acquisitions. 



Number of specimens of Pisces registered, 277. 



