DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY. Ill 



Dr. Ashworth has commenced a catalogue of the Areni- 

 colidce ; Prof. Benham presented a number of the New- 

 Zealand Polychaeta, which he had entrusted to the eminent 

 spscialist Prof. Ehlers for naming. Various kinds of worms 

 have been named by Mr. Shipley, f.r.s., Mr. Beddard, f.r.s., 

 Signor Cognetti de Martiis, and Mr. Cave, of the Agricultural 

 College, at Wye: nearly all the worms obtained during the 

 year have been determined before incorporation. 



The few Anthozoa obtained during the year have been 

 nearly all named. 



Some progress has been made with the revision of the 

 Guide to the Starfish Gallery. 



Tunicata, Brachiopoda, Polyzoa, Hydrozoa, Porifera, 

 and Protozoa. — The work done during the year consisted in 

 preparing and completing the second part of the Report on 

 the Antarctic Sponges (Tetractinellida and Monaxonellida, 

 plates VIII.-XXVI.) ; in conserving, registering, and labelling 

 the acquisitions ; in naming unnamed specimens, especially 

 of sponges, partly of those recently acquired, partly of those 

 belonsjinsr to the general collection. 



II. — Duplicates and Exchanges. 



Duplicates have been presented to the Royal Scottish 

 Museum, Edinburgh ; the Dublin Museum ; the Hancock 

 Museum, Newcastle ; St. Andrews University Museum ; 

 Plymouth and Liverpool Museums ; the University Museum, 

 Cambridge ; the Garden City, Letchworth ; Professor G. C. 

 Bourne ; Major H. Mann, and Mr. R. Gordon Smith. 



Exchanges have been effected with the Carnegie Museum, 

 Pittsburgh ; University College Museum, Dundee ; Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta ; and the Museums of Basle, Berlin, Genoa, 

 Magdeburg, Oxford, Paris, and Sao Paulo ; also with Mr. E. 

 C. Bedwell, Prof. Bouvier, Mr. H. J. Carter, Prof. A. N. 

 Caudell, Mr. A. J. Chitty, Prof. Clark, Prof. C. H. Eigenmann, 

 Prof. Joseph Gillet, M. Antoine Grouvelle, Mr. Martin 

 Jacoby, Mr. W. J. Kaye, Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, Dr. F. Ohaus, 

 Mr. R. C. L. Perkins, and the Hon. N. C. Rothschild. 



III. — Departmental Library. 



One hundred and twenty-one separate works in 274 

 volumes, new to the Library, and 1,472 parts of periodicals 

 and works in progress have been acquired during the year, 

 by purchase, presentation, and exchange. Two hundred and 

 thirty-one books have been bound. The Library now contains 

 11,142 separate works in 17,932 volumes. 



Among the donations to the Library reference may be 

 made to a copy of iSonnini's edition of Buffoon's Histoire 

 Naturelle, consisting of 127 bound volumes, presented by 

 Captain Glyn. 



