138 accounts, etc., op the british museum. 



Department of Geology. 

 T. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



Mammalia (Galleries I and 2). — The drawers of un- 

 exhibited Palaeolithic implements in table-case 1 have been 

 rearranged for more convenient reference. 



The unexhibited remains of Ursidse have been arranged 

 and labelled in the drawers of table-case 3. 



The Creodonta, exhibited in table-case 3a, have been 

 rearranged to admit important recent acquisitions, which 

 have been iableted and provided with printed labels. 



Plaster casts of skulls of Okapia johnstoni have been 

 mounted and placed in piei'-case 14, for comparison with the 

 skull of Samotherium. 



The top of a skull of Arsinoitherium zitteli, from the 

 Upper Eocene of the Fayum, has been mounted on the wall 

 adjoining wall-case 22. 



Case v., containing the Sirenia, has been repainted 

 and rearranged for the addition of a new skeleton of 

 Halitherium schinzi, which has been mounted on ironwork. 

 New labels have been prepared and printed both for this 

 case and for the smaller remains of Sirenia rearranged in 

 pier-case 29. 



The fore and hind limbs of Diprotodon australis have been 

 incorporated in a complete restoration of the skeleton of this 

 extinct Marsupial, which has been mounted and exhibited on 

 a temporary stand in the Great Hall, before being placed in 

 wall-case 27. 



The earliest known drawing of a skeleton of Megatherium., 

 by a Spanish artist, has been framed and placed on the wall 

 near Case Z. 



Remains of a new pigmy elephant {Elephas creticus) 

 discovered by Miss D. M. A. Bate in the caverns of Crete, 

 have been tableted, labelled, and exhibited in table-case 17a. 



A large mandible of Tetrahelodon from the Loup Fork 

 Formation of Kansas, U.S.A., has been mounted and exhibited 

 in pier-case 42. 



Wall-case 43 has been completely rearranged and re- 

 painted, to incorporate recent acquisitions of primitive 

 Proboscidea. The naming of the remains of Dinotherium 

 has been revised, and new printed labels have been prepared. 

 A new descriptive label has been placed on the adjoining 

 wall. 



Teeth and jaws of Moeritherium and Palmomastodon 

 have been mounted and labelled, and added to the exhibition 

 of Proboscidean molars in table-case 24. 



